[R] Dataverse (reading files with .tab and .7z suffixes)

[Jorge Cimentada]

Our just use the dataverse package already in CRAN:
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dataverse/index.html

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Jorge Cimentada
*https://cimentadaj.github.io/ <https://cimentadaj.github.io/>*


On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 2:04 PM, Thomas Levine <_ using thomaslevine.com> wrote:

> Ilio Fornasero writes:
> > Yet, I am at this point.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ## 01. Finding the dataverse server and making a search
> > Sys.setenv("DATAVERSE_SERVER" =3D "dataverse.harvard.edu")
> > dataverse_search(".Hunger")
> >
> >
> > ## 02. Loading the dataset (in this example, I have chosen the word
> ".Hunge=
> > r" to get
> >    # one list and then picked up one out of hundreds results.
> >    # The get-dataset() function has to be picked on the dynamic web
> address=
> > )
> > (dataset_ifpri <- get_dataset("https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZTCWYQ"))
> >
> > ## 03. Grabbing the (1st) file we are interested on
> > AppendixC <- get_file("001_AppendixC.tab",
> >                       "https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZTCWYQ")
> > writeBin(AppendixC, "001_AppendixC.tab")
> >
> > read.table("001_AppendixC.tab")
>
> I imagine you are using the dataverse package.
>
> 7z is more straightforward because the file format is clear.
>
> You need to figure out the 001_AppendixC.tab file format.
> On first glance it looks to me like a spreadsheet.
>
>   $ file /tmp/001_AppendixC.tab
>   /tmp/001_AppendixC.tab: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract
>   $ cd /tmp && unzip 001_AppendixC.tab
>   $ head -n2 /tmp/xl/workbook.xml | cut -c 1-75
>   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
>   <workbook xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/
> spreadsheetml/2006/main"
>
> Once you figure out the format manually, write an R function that
> figures out the format, and ask again here to find an R function that
> reads the format.
>
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