Harvest DHS Dataset Availability — harvest

Scrapes the DHS Program website to retrieve information about the newest available datasets.

harvest_dhs(
  url = "https://dhsprogram.com/data/available-datasets.cfm",
  survey_column = "Survey",
  standard_dhs = TRUE
)

Arguments

url: Character string. URL of the DHS available datasets page. Default is "https://dhsprogram.com/data/available-datasets.cfm".
survey_column: Character string. Name of the column containing survey information. Default is 'Survey'.
standard_dhs: Logical. If TRUE, filters results to include only Standard DHS surveys. Default is TRUE.

A tibble containing all tables from the DHS program URL, with added Country and Year columns extracted from the survey column.

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
dhs_data <- harvest_dhs()
} # }