In order to protect us in case the Réseau Sentinelles Web server disappears or is modified, we make a local copy of this dataset that we store together with our analysis. It is unnecessary and even risky to download the data at each execution, because in case of a malfunction we might be replacing our file by a corrupted version. Therefore we download the data only if no local copy exists.
In order to protect us in case the Réseau Sentinelles Web server disappears or is modified, we make a local copy of this dataset that we store together with our analysis. It is unnecessary and even risky to download the data at each execution, because in case of a malfunction we might be replacing our file by a corrupted version. Therefore we download the data only if no local copy exists.
```{r}
data_file = "syndrome-grippal.csv"
if (!file.exists(data_file)) {
download.file(data_url, data_file, method="auto")
}
```{r}
data_file = "syndrome-grippal.csv"
if (!file.exists(data_file)) {
download.file(data_url, data_file, method="auto")
}
```
This is the documentation of the data from [the download site](https://ns.sentiweb.fr/incidence/csv-schema-v1.json):