downloadTIMSS {EdSurvey}

Download and Unzip TIMSS Files

Description

Uses an Internet connection to download TIMSS data. Data come from timssandpirls.bc.edu zip files. This function works for 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, and 2019 data.

Usage

downloadTIMSS(
  root,
  years = c(2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019),
  cache = FALSE,
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

root

a character string indicating the directory where the TIMSS data should be stored. Files are placed in a subdirectory named TIMSS/[year].

years

an integer vector of the assessment years to download. Valid years are 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, and 2019.

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(s)

Tom Fink

See Also

readTIMSS

Examples

## Not run: 
# root argument will vary by operating system conventions
downloadTIMSS(year=c(2019, 2015, 2011), root = "~/")

# cache=TRUE will download then process the datafiles
downloadTIMSS(year=2015, root = "~/", cache = TRUE)

# set verbose=FALSE for silent output
# if year not specified, download all years
downloadTIMSS(root="~/", verbose = FALSE)

## End(Not run)