Download integrated rounds separately for countries from the European Social Survey

Download integrated rounds separately for countries from the European Social Survey

Usage

import_country(country, rounds, ess_email = NULL, format = NULL)

import_all_cntrounds(country, ess_email = NULL, format = NULL)

download_country(
  country,
  rounds,
  ess_email = NULL,
  output_dir = getwd(),
  format = "stata"
)

Arguments

country

a character of length 1 with the full name of the country. Use show_countries for a list of available countries.

rounds

a numeric vector with the rounds to download. See show_rounds for all available rounds.

ess_email

a character vector with your email, such as "your_email@email.com". If you haven't registered in the ESS website, create an account at http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/user/new. A preferred method is to login through set_email.

format

the format from which to download the data. By default it is NULL for import_* functions and tries to read 'stata', 'spss' and 'sas' in the specific order. This can be useful if some countries don't have a particular format available. Alternatively, the user can specify the format which can either be 'stata', 'spss' or 'sas'. For the download_* functions it is set to 'stata' because the format should be specified before the downloading. When using import_country the data will be downloaded and read in the format specified. For download_country, the data is downloaded from the specified format (only 'spss' and 'stata' supported, see details).

output_dir

a character vector with the output directory in case you want to only download the files using download_country. Defaults to your working directory. This will be interpreted as a directory and not a path with a file name.

Value

for import_country if length(rounds) is 1, it returns a tibble with the latest version of that round. Otherwise it returns a list of length(rounds) containing the latest version of each round. For download_country, if output_dir is a valid directory, it returns the saved directories invisibly and saves all the rounds in the chosen format in output_dir

Details

Use import_country to download specified rounds for a given country and import them to R. import_all_cntrounds will download all rounds for a given country by default and download_country will download rounds and save them in a specified format in the supplied directory.

The format argument from import_country should not matter to the user because the data is read into R either way. However, different formats might have different handling of the encoding of some questions. This option was preserved so that the user can switch between formats if any encoding errors are found in the data. For more details see the discussion here. For this particular argument, 'sas' is not supported because the data formats have changed between ESS waves and separate formats require different functions to be read. To preserve parsimony and format errors between waves, the user should use 'spss' or 'stata'.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{

set_email("your_email@email.com")

# Get first three rounds for Denmark
dk_three <- import_country("Denmark", 1:3)

# Only download the files, this will return nothing

temp_dir <- tempdir()

download_country(
 "Turkey",
 rounds = c(2, 4),
 output_dir = temp_dir
)

# By default, download_country downloads 'stata' files but
# you can also download 'spss' or 'sas' files.

download_country(
 "Turkey",
 rounds = c(2, 4),
 output_dir = temp_dir,
 format = 'spss'
)

# If email is not registered at ESS website, error will arise
uk_one <- import_country("United Kingdom", 5, "wrong_email@email.com")
# Error in authenticate(ess_email) : 
# The email address you provided is not associated with any registered user.
# Create an account at http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/user/new

# If selected rounds don't exist, error will arise

czech_two <- import_country("Czech Republic", c(1, 22))

# Error in country_url(country, rounds) : 
# Only rounds ESS1, ESS2, ESS4, ESS5, ESS6, ESS7, ESS8 available
# for Czech Republic
} # }