getAE_data: getAE_data

In ImogenConnorHelleur/nhsAEscraperScotland: Download and collate Accident and Emergency data from NHS England's website

Description

getAE_data

Usage

getAE_data(update_data = TRUE, directory = file.path("data-raw", "sitreps"),
  url_list = NULL, use_filename_date = FALSE)

Arguments

update_data	whether to download files afresh from NHS England website (TRUE) or use existing downloaded files (FALSE)
directory	directory to find existing downloaded files, and to save new downloads
url_list	list of urls (as strings) for the pages to scrape for data files
use_filename_date	if TRUE, take dates from the Excel file's name, if FALSE, take from the date specified inside the sheet

Value

A data frame containing all the monthly A&E data from the NHS England website.

Examples

AE_data <- getAE_data(directory = file.path('nhsAEscraper','sitreps'))
str(AE_data)

ImogenConnorHelleur/nhsAEscraperScotland documentation built on May 26, 2019, 2:36 a.m.