Retrieve Ontario Health Region boundaries — retrieve_health

Retrieves Ontario Health Region boundaries from the LIO Open Data REST service (LIO_Open09/52).

Usage

retrieve_health_region(simplify = TRUE, refresh = FALSE, max_age = NULL)

simplify: Logical. If TRUE (the default), requests generalized geometry from the service. Unlike retrieve_phu(), this layer's full-precision geometry is unreliable to fetch: these 6 regions are province-scale with much more complex boundaries than the 34 PHUs, and the LIO ArcGIS service intermittently fails ("Could not access any server machines") on the unsimplified request for this specific layer. Set to FALSE if you need full precision and are prepared to retry on failure.
refresh: Logical. If TRUE, bypasses any cached copy and re-fetches from the live API. Defaults to FALSE.
max_age: Numeric or NULL. Maximum acceptable cache age in days; older entries are re-fetched. Defaults to NULL.

An sf object of Ontario Health Region boundary polygons, with source_url, source_name, and retrieved_at attributes attached.

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Retrieves from the Ontario LIO REST service and caches the result.
health_regions <- retrieve_health_region()
} # }