This function works with the API provided by EDI to download the files of a package. The default behavior is to download the newest version of the data package, but this can be changed via the version argument. The function handles different file types differently, i.e., .csv files are read directly into R while all other file types are downloaded in the temporary folder and a file path to the file is returned. Bear in mind that the EDI servers are very slow and the execution of this code will be thus affected.
Arguments
- url
URL of the EDI package with the version number, i.e., the package URL you would access in the browser.
- files
Vector of file names of interest. Should match exactly what is on the website. Leave this blank to see the options.
- version
Version of interest for the package at hand. Defaults to
newest, which pulls data from the newest version.- quiet
Defaults to FALSE. If TRUE, will not print the abbreviated table in the console.
Value
A list of the data files requested. If it is a CSV, this will be
read directly into R via the utils::read.csv() function. If any other file types,
the file will be downloaded and the file path will be provided as an
output for that element.
Examples
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
getEDI("https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?packageid=edi.534.8",
files = c("Catch.csv", "SLSTables.rds", "SLS_Metadata.pdf"))
} # }