mdl_harvest_nada: Harvest from external NADA
In UNHCRmdl/mdl: R client for UNHCR Microdata Library

mdl_harvest_nada

R Documentation

Harvest from external NADA

Description

Copies a dataset from another NADA microdata library to the UNHCR MDL. By default, harvests from the WBG library (https://microdata.worldbank.org). Changing the parameters, the harvest should work with other NADA based libraries (given other implementations and versions it may not work though).

Usage

mdl_harvest_nada(
  library_url = "https://microdata.worldbank.org",
  survey_idno,
  base_path = NULL,
  upload_files = FALSE,
  idno_prefix = "WBG",
  enum_collection = mdl_enum_collection$WorldBank,
  overwrite,
  published
)

Arguments

`library_url`	The url of the library, for example: "https://microdata.worldbank.org"
`survey_idno`	Unique survey identifier in NADA
`base_path`	The path on your computer where the files will be downloaded, if not specified uses the current working directory
`upload_files`	TRUE if you want to upload a copy of the documentation files; FALSE if you want just to put a direct link to the files
`idno_prefix`	A string to be used as prefix of the idno, so that it can be easily recognized as harvested.
`enum_collection`	The collection where copy the dataset. Please consider using mdl_enum_collection.
`overwrite`	TRUE if you want to overwrite the dataset in case it already exists; FALSE if you want to avoid to overwrite
`published`	TRUE if you want to publish directly the dataset; FALSE if you want just to load it in the back-end

Details

Warning messages about incomplete final line found in readLines is not a concern. Please note that files get downloaded only if not present in the base_path folder: to have up to date files delete them.