download_chronicle: Download Duke Chronicle's ZIP file of JPGs
In OlivierBinette/TessTools: Tools for the use of Tesseract OCR in R

View source: R/chronicle-utils.R

download_chronicle

R Documentation

Download Duke Chronicle's ZIP file of JPGs

Description

Download ZIP file of JPG newspaper scans for the specified edition. All Chronicle issues are listed in the chronicle_meta data file with identifiers under the "local_id" column.

Usage

download_chronicle(id, outputdir=".", overwrite=FALSE, filename=NULL)

Arguments

`id`	identifier of the chronicle issue. Valid identifiers are under the column "local_id" in the `chronicle_meta` data file.
`outputdir`	output directory for the ZIP file.
`overwrite`	whether or not to overwrite data which has already been downloaded.
`filename`	name of the ZIP file. Default is NULL, in which case the ZIP file will be named after the issue id.