Rstudio Addin/Shiny app

[carlganz]

Would it make sense to include a UI for working with lodown?

[ajdamico]

i don't know! would it? :) this probably isn't something i would attempt myself, but you are very welcome to add one and i would try to document your work as you make progress..

[carlganz]

Ok I'll build something simple reasonably soon.

First problem: there needs to be a list of all surveys you can download with lodown. Unless I am missing something, this ugly hack is the only way to extract such a list:

gsub("lodown_", "", ls(all.names=TRUE, envir=asNamespace("lodown"))[grepl("lodown_*",ls(all.names=TRUE, envir=asNamespace("lodown")))][-1])

Ideally, in the inst folder there would be a csv with all the metadata i.e. for each survey list the Name of Survey, Webpage, Years available, Requires password, etc.

[ajdamico]

hi, thank you. i haven't made any decisions about how to structure this: https://github.com/ajdamico/lodown/issues/4

[ajdamico]

hi Carl! thanks again for your interest in the project and apologies for the long delay.. i've made a couple of big updates to asdfree.com that hopefully make the website a bit better, but i've decided to stop maintaining the lodown package. hope you are great