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nhs-r-community / NHSRpopulation

API package to get postcode and Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) data from the ONS by LSOA, currently for England.
https://nhs-r-community.github.io/NHSRpopulation/
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Several APIs needed for different aspects of the data #37

Closed Lextuga007 closed 5 months ago

Lextuga007 commented 7 months ago

The services1.arcgis API gives postcode information that includes the IMD score but no other IMD information and the

https://data-communities.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/communities::indices-of-multiple-deprivation-imd-2019-1/api

is only for England but this

https://statistics.ukdataservice.ac.uk/dataset/2011-census-geography-boundaries-lower-layer-super-output-areas-and-data-zones

may include some/enough of the IMD information?

Lextuga007 commented 5 months ago

Note that the vignette for the package is pre-run and needs to be updated https://ropensci.org/blog/2019/12/08/precompute-vignettes/. This gets around an error that came through the gh-action but not when locally run but also so that the APIs are not hit too much on the package builds.