Main Function to Download DHS Datasets — download_dhs

Downloads the latest PR (household) and GE (geographic) DHS datasets for specified countries.

Usage

download_dhs_datasets(
  country_codes,
  cache_path = here::here("01_data", "1a_survey_data", "raw"),
  output_dir_root = here::here("01_data", "1a_survey_data", "raw"),
  survey_id = NULL,
  email,
  project,
  verbose = TRUE,
  clear_cache = TRUE
)

Arguments

country_codes: A character vector of ISO3 country codes.
cache_path: A character string specifying the cache path for RDHS.
output_dir_root: A character string specifying the root directory for output.
survey_id: A character vector of survey IDs. If NULL, uses latest survey.
email: A character string. Email registered with DHS.
project: A character string. Project name as registered with DHS.
verbose: Logical for rdhs setup and messages to be printed.
clear_cache: Logical whether to clear cache before downloading.

Value

Invisibly returns a list of downloaded dataset filenames.