Download FAERS data — retrieve

This function downloads the FAERS data for a specific year and quarter.

retrieve_qde(
  path,
  year,
  quarter = c("q1", "q2", "q3", "q4"),
  type = c("ascii", "xml"),
  interactive_session = rlang::is_interactive(),
  create_folder = NULL,
  download_data = NULL
)

Arguments

path: (chr) Path of the directory where you want to download the data.
year: (chr) The year of the data to download (after 2012 up to the current year).
quarter: (chr) The quarter of the data to download ("q1", "q2", "q3" or "q4", default: "q1").
type: (chr) The format of the data to download,
interactive_session: (lgl) Is R running in an interactive session? (default: the status of the current session).
create_folder: (lgl) Only if session is not in interactive mode. TRUE: permission to create folders, FALSE: deny permission to create folders.
download_data: (lgl) Only if session is not in interactive mode. TRUE: permission to download data, FALSE: deny permission to download data.

Value

(lgl) TRUE if the download was successful, FALSE otherwise.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
  retrieve_qde(path = ".", year = "2018", quarter = "q4")
}