rdhs (version 0.8.1)

dhs_data_updates: API request of DHS Data Updates

Description

API request of DHS Data Updates

Usage

dhs_data_updates(
  lastUpdate = NULL,
  f = NULL,
  returnFields = NULL,
  perPage = NULL,
  page = NULL,
  client = NULL,
  force = FALSE,
  all_results = TRUE
)

Value

Returns a data.table of 9 (or less if returnFields is provided) indicators or surveys that have been added/updated or removed. A detailed description of all the attributes returned is provided at

https://api.dhsprogram.com/rest/dhs/dataupdates/fields

Arguments

lastUpdate

Specify a date or Unix time to filter the updates by. Only results for data that have been updated on or after the specified date will be returned.

f

You can specify the format of the data returned from the query as HTML, JSON, PJSON, geoJSON, JSONP, XML or CSV. The default data format is JSON.

returnFields

Specify a list of attributes to be returned.

perPage

Specify the number of results to be returned per page. By default the API will return 100 results.

page

Allows specifying a page number to obtain for the API request. By default the API will return page 1.

client

If the API request should be cached, then provide a client object created by client_dhs

force

Should we force fetching the API results, and ignore any cached results we have. Default = FALSE

all_results

Boolean for if all results should be returned. If FALSE then the specified page only will be returned. Default = TRUE.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# The API endpoint for the data updates available within the DHS
# is a very useful endpoint, which is used a lot within `rdhs`. For example,
# we use it to keep the end user's cache up to date. For example to find all
# updates that have occurred in 2018:

dat <- dhs_data_updates(lastUpdate="20180101")

# A complete list of examples for how each argument to the data updates
# API endpoint can be provided is given below, which is a
# copy of each of the examples listed in the API at:

# https://api.dhsprogram.com/#/api-dataupdates.cfm


dat <- dhs_data_updates(lastUpdate="20150901",all_results=FALSE)
dat <- dhs_data_updates(f="html",all_results=FALSE)
}