dl_stats19: Download STATS19 data for a year or range of two years.
In ITSLeeds/stats19: Work with Open Road Traffic Casualty Data from Great Britain

Description Usage Arguments Details See Also Examples

Download STATS19 data for a year or range of two years.

1 2	dl_stats19(year = NULL, type = NULL, data_dir = tempdir(), file_name = NULL, ask = TRUE)

`year`	Single year for which file is to be downloaded.
`type`	One of 'Accidents', 'Casualties', 'Vehicles'; defaults to 'Accidents'. Or any variation of to search the file names with such as "acc" or "accid".
`data_dir`	Parent directory for all downloaded files. Defaults to `tempdir()`.
`file_name`	The file name (DfT named) to download.
`ask`	Should you be asked whether or not to download the files? `TRUE` by default.

This function downloads and unzips UK road crash data. It results in unzipped .csv files that are put in the temporary directory specified by tempdir() or provided data_dir.

The file downloaded would be for a specific year (e.g. 2017). It could also be a file containing data for a range of two (e.g. 2005-2014).

The dl_* functions can download many MB of data so ensure you have a sufficient internet access and hard disk space.

get_stats19()

dl_stats19(year = 2017) # interactively select files...
# now you can read-in the data
dl_stats19(year = 2009)
dl_stats19(year = 2009, type = "casualties")
dl_stats19(type = "casualties")
dl_stats19(year = 1985)