gisco_get_healthcare: Get locations of healthcare services in Europe.

In giscoR: Download Map Data from GISCO API - Eurostat

Get locations of healthcare services in Europe.

Description

The dataset contains information on main healthcare services considered to be 'hospitals' by Member States.

Usage

gisco_get_healthcare(
  cache = TRUE,
  update_cache = FALSE,
  cache_dir = NULL,
  verbose = FALSE,
  country = NULL
)

Arguments

cache	A logical whether to do caching. Default is TRUE. See About caching.
update_cache	A logical whether to update cache. Default is FALSE. When set to TRUE it would force a fresh download of the source .geojson file.
cache_dir	A path to a cache directory. See About caching.
verbose	Logical, displays information. Useful for debugging, default is FALSE.
country	Optional. A character vector of country codes. It could be either a vector of country names, a vector of ISO3 country codes or a vector of Eurostat country codes. Mixed types (as c("Turkey","US","FRA")) would not work. See also countrycode::countrycode().

Details

Files are distributed on EPSG:4326. Metadata available on https://gisco-services.ec.europa.eu/pub/healthcare/metadata.pdf.

Value

A POINT object.

About caching

You can set your cache_dir with gisco_set_cache_dir().

Sometimes cached files may be corrupt. On that case, try re-downloading the data setting update_cache = TRUE.

If you experience any problem on download, try to download the corresponding .geojson file by any other method and save it on your cache_dir. Use the option verbose = TRUE for debugging the API query.

For a complete list of files available check gisco_db.

Author(s)

dieghernan, https://github.com/dieghernan/

Source

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/healthcare-services

See Also

gisco_get_countries()

Other infrastructure: gisco_get_airports()

Examples

health_BEL <- gisco_get_healthcare(country = "Belgium")
health_BEL

giscoR documentation built on Nov. 2, 2023, 5:07 p.m.