rsync_from_hathi: rsync Hathi Trust EFs from Hathi Trust

In xmarquez/hathiTools: Access the Hathi Trust Bookworm and Extracted Features Files from R

rsync Hathi Trust EFs from Hathi Trust

Description

Given a vector of Hathi Trust IDs (generated, for example, from workset_builder), this function attempts to use rsync to download their Extracted Features (per-page word counts and part of speech information) files from Hathi Trust. rsync needs to be installed in your system and accessible via system or system2.

Usage

rsync_from_hathi(htids, dir = getOption("hathiTools.ef.dir"))

Arguments

htids	A vector of Hathi Trust IDs, a workset generated by workset_builder, or a data frame with a column named 'htid'.
dir	The directory to save the downloaded EF files to. This defaults to getOption("hathiTools.ef.dir"), which is just "./hathi-ef" on loading.

Value

The return code of system or system2 used to run rsync, which must be installed on your system.

Examples

res <- workset_builder(c("tylenol", "paracetamol"), volumes_only = FALSE)
rsync_from_hathi(res$htid[1:10], dir = tempdir())

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