getGradCafeData: Function that Downloads Grad Cafe Results Data
In brewdata: Extracting Usable Data from the Grad Cafe Results Search

Description Usage Arguments Value References See Also Examples

getGradCafeData retrieves data from the Grad Cafe Results Search pages. This is an internal helper function, so end-users should not need to interact with it directly.

1	getGradCafeData( years, term, degree, focus )

`term`	`term` indicates which term an applicant would begin graduate study. There are only two acceptable values for this parameter: 'F' and 'S'. 'F' narrows the search to fall matriculations only. 'S' narrows the search to include only the spring term. Users may choose only one value. The default is 'F'.
`years`	`years` specifies which years of data to include in the dataset. The year specifies the time at which an applicant would start school not when he or she applied. So, if someone applied for fall 2014 and was accepted in December 2013 and that person was also thoughtful enough to post his or her metrics on the Grad Cafe's Results Search page, then that record would appear if 2014 is part of the years searched. The two digit year (e.g. "10", "12", "06", etc.) is the only acceptable date format. Inputs may be a single value or a list such as c("08","13","15").
`degree`	`degree` determines whether results should be for masters or phd programs. Users must specify exactly one and enclose the value in quotes. 'masters' or 'phd' are the only acceptable values for this field. The default is 'phd'.
`focus`	`focus` specifies the program. Any term that returns results on the Grad Cafe is acceptable, but brewdata was tuned using 'statistics' or 'biostatistics'. University name mappings could be quite poor for any value other than these two. The default value is 'statistics'.