Tools To Help With Address Data • addrsheff

addrsheff is an R package. The goal is to help with address data e.g. postcodes.

Installation

You can install the development version of addrsheff from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("scc-pi/addrsheff")

If you work for Sheffield City Council you can install the binary package for Windows from:

S:\BI Team\ShareToAll\RPackages

Using RStudio you can do this via the Tools > Install packages… menu.

add_postcode_vars()

This package currently has just one function add_postcode_vars(). Pass it a data frame with a postcode column, specify the variables e.g. Ward, and it will add them to the passed data frame and return it. Valid variable names are listed under “Available Data Fields” in postcodes.io/docs.

library(addrsheff)

# Create a data frame with some example records
df <- tibble::tribble(
  ~name,    ~postcode,
  "SCC",    "S1 2HH",
  "Blades", "S2 4SU",
  "Owls",   "S6 1SW"
)

add_postcode_vars(
  df,
  pcd_name = "postcode",
  .admin_district = FALSE,
  .lat_long = TRUE,
  other_vars = c("admin_ward", "msoa_code")
)

Credit

The add_postcode_vars() function depends on the PostcodesioR package and the postcodes.io free postcode and geolocation API for the UK.

This package was built using fusen.