pewdata
Reproducible Retrieval of Pew Research Center Datasets
Reproducible, programmatic retrieval of survey datasets from the Pew Research Center.
pewdata is an R package that provides reproducible, programmatic access to survey datasets from the Pew Research Center.
To install:
- the latest released version:
install.packages("pewdata") - the latest development version:
if (!require(ghit)) install.packages("ghit")ghit::install_github("fsolt/pewdata")Note that pewdata depends on the Chrome Dev browser; if you don't already have it installed on your machine, get it here.
For more details, check out the vignette.
News
Version 0.3.0
- Works with the revised Pew Research Center website, which necessitated a switch back to
RSeleniumfromrvest. - By default, automatically converts downloaded datafiles to .RData format.
Version 0.2.0
- Faster
- Revised the function to be more compact with the
rvestfunctions. - Replaced the
if-else ifchains with the switch statements. - Overwrote the
forloop by asapplyfunction.
- Revised the function to be more compact with the
- More user-friendly
- Users do not need to set up the
.Rprofileby themselves. If the information is missing the function will automatically call an input request at the terminal to ask for required information for the downloading. - Users can reset the register information stored in the
.Rprofileby switching the argumentresettoTRUE. - The function no longer relies on the Firefox browser.
- Users do not need to set up the
Version 0.1.1
Allows nested directories to be automatically created if necessary if specified using the download_dir argument
Version 0.1.0
First release.