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Accessing site-files

Accessing-site-files.Rmd

Downloading a site file

To access a site file - a collated set of data for a specific country - you will need to follow these steps:

  1. Sign up for a github account, single user accounts are free.

  2. Send an email to to ask for site file access. Please include the following details:

  • Your name
  • Your institution
  • Your github username
  • A short description of the project you will use the site files for
  1. You will then be added to the malariaverse github team.

When you receive confirmation of this (look out for a notification on github), you can then use the site package inbuilt functionality to download site files.

You can call fetch_site(), specifying the ISO3c country code of your country of interest. For example, for Nigeria: fetch_site(iso3c = "NGA).

The first time you do this, you will see interactive authentication instructions asking you to access a github link and providing an authentication code. Open the link and copy the code to authorise access. This process should cache your credentials so that you don’t have to authorise every time.

Updates and versioning

Site files will be periodically updated. When you call fetch_site(), by default you will be accessing the most recent version of the site file. The version can be identified XXX here and you will be able to access older versions of the site files by specifying additional arguments (e.g XXXX) when calling fetch_site(). Older versions may no longer be supported with the malariaverse packages.

News on new updates will be posted here.

Issues

If you encounter any issues with this process, please post an issue, with as much detail as possible on the site package issue page.