download.fpsim.data: Download FPSIM Data

In fpsim: Compute Measures of Foreign Policy Similarity/Agreement

Download FPSIM Data

Description

download.fpsim.data() will download available pre-made dyadic foreign policy similarity data and place its contents the package's extdata/ directory. It leverages R's inst/ directory flexibility.

Usage

download.fpsim.data(confirm = FALSE, warning = TRUE, format = "rds")

Arguments

confirm	logical, defaults to FALSE. If FALSE, the function does not actually download the data. Set this to TRUE to confirm your intentions to download the data.
warning	logical, defaults to TRUE. If TRUE, the function returns a message advising you about the total size of the files you'll be downloading. If FALSE, no message is returned about the total file sizes.
format	a character vector determining what format to download. Defaults to "rds" for the R serialized data frame format native to R. "qs" downloads the data in a .qs file for more file compression, though reading it will depend on the qs2 package.

Details

This function is named in such a way to avoid a function clash with the download_extdata() function in peacesciencer. It also comes from my aversion to the use of underscores in R function. There is nothing wrong with this convention, but the chatbots have ruined it for me.

This function will not download FPSIM.rds. The download_extdata() function in peacesciencer will do that.

Examples

download.fpsim.data()

# If you use this function, please inspect the extdata/ directory of the R
# package on your system. This function's output will tell you where it is.
# Thereafter, you can manually read a particular file into R. Something like
# this would work, though, if you had no idea where anything is.
#
# a <- paste0(system.file("extdata", package = "fpsim"),"/fpsim-votes-a.rds")
# Data <- readRDS(a)
# Data

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