[R-sig-Geo] Extract CRU data

[Miluji Sb]

That indeed was the most efficient solution. Thank you!

On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 1:45 PM Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson using gmail.com>
wrote:

> Are you asking if there's a way to automate the download of a list of
> links from that page? You could write an R script to get the HTML, then
> find all the HTML <A> tags, and then get the URLs in the link addresses,
> and there's packages for doing this kind of web scraping.
>
> But for this kind of thing it might be easier to use a web browser add-on
> - I have "Down Them All" set up on Firefox, and with a click or two I can
> get a list of all the link URLs and hit a button that downloads everything
> to a single folder. Once done, I can use standard R functions to list all
> the downloaded files and read them. Took about 20 seconds to do for this
> page, and now I have a folder of 292 .tmp.per files.
>
> Barry
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 11:13 AM Miluji Sb <milujisb using gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Greetings everyone,
>>
>> I have a question on extracting country-level data from CRU (
>>
>> https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/cru_ts_4.06/crucy.2205251923.v4.06/countries/tmp/
>> ).
>> The data for each variable are available for individual countries and I am
>> struggling to download all of them. Can I extract all the files in R then
>> merge? Thanks so much.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Milu
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