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Pull and save the current state of NHSN data on HealthData.gov

Source: R/pull_data.R
pull_and_write_hosp_data.Rd

Pull data using pull_nhsn(), format it for pipeline ingestion, and write it to disk as a date-stamped .csv file.

Usage

pull_and_write_hosp_data(location_data_path, output_dir, force = FALSE)

Arguments

location_data_path

Path to a csv file containing data about constituent locations, with columns "abbreviation" and "population"

output_dir

Directory in which to save the output.

force

Overwrite an existing .csv with the same date-stamp? Boolean, default FALSE.

Value

NULL, saving the data to disk as a side effect.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# this will write a file named `<today's date>.csv` to a directory named
# `input/hosp_data/vintage_datasets`.
locs <- file.path("input", "locations.csv")
out <- file.path("input", "hosp_data", "vintage_datasets")
pull_and_write_hosp_data(locs, out)
} # }