Update local FAERS data (ascii files only) — update

This function downloads the FAERS ascii data missing in the selected folder.

update_local(
  path,
  missing_metadata = what_is_missing(path),
  permission_to_update = NULL
)

Arguments

path: (chr) The path of the folder containing a subfolder (named "faers_raw_data") with FAERS data inside, sorted by year and quarter.
missing_metadata: A tibble reporting year, quarter and type of FAERS dataset currently missing in the selected folder, usually an output of what_is_missing() function (default: what_is_missing(path)).
permission_to_update: (lgl) Only if session is not in interactive mode. TRUE: permission to download files, FALSE: deny permission to download files.

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

if (FALSE) {
 update_local(".")
}