getAdditionalData: Get Additional Data

In seroincidence: Estimating Infection Rates from Serological Data

Description

Retrieves additional data from internet. This can be any file type, but the purpose of this function is to download data such as longitudinal response parameters from an online repository.

Usage

getAdditionalData(fileName,
  repoURL = "http://ecdc.europa.eu/sites/portal/files/documents",
  savePath = NULL)

Arguments

fileName	Name of the file to download. Required.
repoURL	Web address of the remote repository of files to download from. Required. Default = "http://ecdc.europa.eu/sites/portal/files/documents"
savePath	Folder to save the downloaded and unzipped (if needed) file. File is saved only if this argument is not NULL. Optional. Default = NULL.

Value

Data object

Examples

## Not run: 
getAdditionalData(fileName = "coxiellaIFAParams4.zip")
getAdditionalData(fileName = "yersiniaSSIParams4.zip")
getAdditionalData(fileName = "coxiellaIFAParams4.zip", savePath = getwd())
getAdditionalData(fileName = "yersiniaSSIParams4.zip", savePath = getwd())

## End(Not run)

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