Download and Unzip PIAAC Files — downloadPIAAC • EdSurvey

Uses an Internet connection to download PIAAC data to a computer. Data come from the OECD website.

Usage

downloadPIAAC(root, cycle = 1, cache = FALSE, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

root: a character string indicating the directory where the PIAAC data should be stored. Files are placed in a folder named PIAAC/cycle [cycle number].
cycle: a numeric value indicating the assessment cycle to download. Valid cycle is 1 only.
cache: a logical value set to process and cache the text (.txt) version of files. This takes a very long time but saves time for future uses of the data. Default value is FALSE.
verbose: a logical value to either print or suppress status message output. The default value is TRUE.

Author

Eric Buehler, Paul Bailey, Trang Nguyen, and Yuqi Liao

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# download all available data for PIAAC round 1 to "~/PIAAC/Round 1" folder
# root argument will vary by operating system conventions
downloadPIAAC(root="~/")
} # }