--- title: "Download ILSA files" output: rmarkdown::html_vignette vignette: > %\VignetteIndexEntry{Download ILSA files} %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown} %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8} --- ```{r setup,echo=FALSE} library(ILSAmerge) ``` ```{r, include = FALSE} knitr::opts_chunk$set( collapse = TRUE ) ``` ## Available datasets Currently [`ILSAmerge`](https://cran.r-project.org/package=ILSAmerge) is able to download several ILSA datasets, including: 'PISA', 'TALIS', 'TIMSS', 'TIMSS Advanced', 'PIRLS', 'ICCS', 'ICILS', 'CIVED', 'REDS', 'RLII', and 'SITES.' The links of these datasets are allocated in [GitHub](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dopatendo/ILSAmerge/refs/heads/main/data/ILSAlinks.csv), so links can be corrected if they are down. With `availableILSA()`, we can check which datasets are available: ```{r, eval = TRUE} availableILSA() ``` ## Download the datasets for a particular study Depending on the study datasets are uploaded in 1 or more .zip files. That is why `ILSAdownload()` will handle by itself how many and which .zip files to download. As an example, we let us say we want to download the data of 'RLII' 1991. Then, at least we need to opt for three arguments; `study`, `year`, and `outputdir`: ```{r, eval = FALSE} ILSAdownload(study = "RLII", year = 1991, outputdir = tempdir()) ``` ```{r, eval = TRUE, echo=FALSE} try(ILSAdownload(study = "RLII", year = 1991, outputdir = tempdir()),silent = TRUE) ``` As we can see, some studies will require that you agree with their license agreements. If that is the case, you will be required to answer if you agree or not. In order to continue, you will need to agree. If you know that you will agree with the study terms, then you can also avoid this prompt via `agreeLicense = TRUE`: ```{r, eval = TRUE} ILSAdownload(study = "RLII", year = 1991, outputdir = tempdir(), agreeLicense = TRUE) ``` ## Unzip This function can also unzip downloaded files using `unzip = TRUE`: ```{r, eval = FALSE} ILSAdownload(study = "RLII", year = 1991, outputdir = tempdir(), unzip = TRUE) ``` ## Avoid printing It is possible to avoid any printing by `quiet = TRUE`, but you will still be prompted to agree. To avoid both prints you can use both arguments: ```{r, eval = FALSE} ILSAdownload(study = "RLII", year = 1991, outputdir = tempdir(), quiet = TRUE, agreeLicense = TRUE) ``` ## Download time Timeout times for downloading are controlled by `maxtime`, which you can set for a desired number of seconds: ```{r, eval=FALSE} ILSAdownload(study = "RLII", year = 1991, outputdir = tempdir(), maxtime = 60) ```