cbs4_download: Download observations and metadata

In statistiekcbs/cbsccb: Statistics Netherlands (CBS) Open Data API Client v4

Download observations and metadata

Description

Download observations and metadata to a directory. This function is the working horse for cbs4_get_data() and cbs4_get_observations() and has many of the same options. This function is useful if you do not want to load an entire dataset into memory, but just download the data and metadata in csv format.

Usage

cbs4_download(
  id,
  download_dir = id,
  ...,
  query = NULL,
  catalog = "CBS",
  show_progress = interactive() && !verbose,
  sep = ",",
  verbose = getOption("cbsodata4.verbose", FALSE),
  base_url = getOption("cbsodata4.base_url", BASEURL4)
)

Arguments

id	Identifier of publication
download_dir	directory where files are to be stored
...	optional selection statement to retrieve a subset of the data.
query	optional odata4 query in odata syntax (overwrites any specification in ...)
catalog	Catalog to download from
show_progress	logical if TRUE downloading shows a progress bar. Cannot be used together with verbose=TRUE
sep	seperator to be used in writing the data
verbose	Should messages be printed...
base_url	Possible other website which implements same protocol.

Value

metadata of table (invisible()).

See Also

Other data-download: cbs4_get_data(), cbs4_get_observations()

statistiekcbs/cbsccb documentation built on April 8, 2022, 2:38 a.m.