imd_lookup: Gets English indices of deprivation ranks by postcode

In northernjamie/imdr: Look Up Indices of Deprivation Data By Postcode

Description

This package takes a dataframe containing a column of postcodes (and other information) and uses it to look up IMD ranks for that area

Usage

imd_lookup(postcodes, pcdcolumn)

Arguments

postcodes	This is the dataframe containing all data
pcdcolumn	This is the index of the column that contains the postcode data (1 being the 1st column in the daataframe)

Details

Lookup IMD Using Postcode

Function for looking up a column of postcodes and returning information about the indices of deprivation about that area.

Uses the SPARQL endpoint at Open Data Communities - The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government in the UK. Coverage - England only.

Value

returns a dataframe with the original data with extra columns containing deprivation ranks

Examples

new_dataframe <- imd_lookup(dataToBeMatched,3) [3 is the index of the column with the postcode in]

northernjamie/imdr documentation built on May 3, 2019, 7:07 p.m.