downloadELS: Download and Unzip ELS Files

In EdSurvey: Analysis of NCES Education Survey and Assessment Data

Download and Unzip ELS Files

Description

Uses an Internet connection to download ELS data. Data come from nces.ed.gov zip files. This function works for 2002 data.

Usage

downloadELS(root, years = c(2002), cache = FALSE, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

root	a character string indicating the directory where the ELS data should be stored. Files are placed in a subdirectory named ELS/[year].
years	an integer vector of the assessment years to download. Valid year is 2002 only.
cache	a logical value set to process and cache the text (.txt) version of files. This takes a very long time but saves time for future uses of the data. Default value is FALSE.
verbose	a logical value to either print or suppress status message output. The default value is TRUE.

Author(s)

Tom Fink

See Also

readELS

Examples

## Not run: 
# root argument will vary by operating system conventions
downloadELS(years=2002, root = "~/")

# cache=TRUE will download then process the datafiles
downloadELS(years=2002, root = "~/", cache = TRUE)

# set verbose=FALSE for silent output
# if year not specified, download all years
downloadELS(root="~/", verbose = FALSE)

## End(Not run)

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