get_latest_resource_id — get_latest_resource

to be confident that the resource returned is the one intended two conditions have to be met. It has to appear at the top of of the resource list as shown on the open data platform. The order they are returned via the api is the same as they appear on the open data platform. It also has to have the most recent date created

Usage

get_latest_resource_id(dataset_name)

Arguments

dataset_name: name of the dataset as found on NHS Open Data platform

Value

a string with the resource id

Details

There are only some datasets that this functionality is relevant to, these are listed within applicable datasets and are the datasets that keep historic resources instead of over writing them.