icews: Get ICEWS Event Data

In andybega/icews: Get the ICEWS Event Data

Get ICEWS Event Data

Description

Download utilities and other helpers for getting the ICEWS event data from Dataverse.

Package options

Icews uses the following options() to configure behavior:

• icews.debug: set to TRUE to print additional diagnostic messages in various functions.

Options that control file and database paths, and which should be set with setup_icews():

• icews.data_dir: Path to the directory in which data will be kept locally. Depending on the other settings, subdirectories like "raw" and "db" will be created within.

• icews.use_db: Use a SQLite database to store the data?

• icews.keep_files: If "use_db" is TRUE, retain the raw data TSV files or delete after ingesting to the database?

See https://github.com/andybega/icews and https://www.andybeger.com/icews/ for more information.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Andreas Beger [e-mail] (ORCID)

References

Boschee, Elizabeth; Lautenschlager, Jennifer; O'Brien, Sean; Shellman, Steve; Starz, James; Ward, Michael, 2015, “ICEWS Coded Event Data”, \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.7910/DVN/28075")}, Harvard Dataverse.

Boschee, Elizabeth; Lautenschlager, Jennifer; O'Brien, Sean; Shellman, Steve; Starz, James, 2018, “ICEWS Weekly Event Data”, \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.7910/DVN/QI2T9A")}, Harvard Dataverse.

See Also

Useful links:

• https://www.andybeger.com/icews/

• https://github.com/andybega/icews

• Report bugs at https://github.com/andybega/icews/issues

andybega/icews documentation built on July 7, 2023, 1:29 p.m.