icpsrdata is an R package that provides reproducible,
programmatic access to datasets stored in the Inter-university Consortium for
Political and Social Research archive.
To install:
install.packages("icpsrdata")if (!require(remotes)) install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("fsolt/icpsrdata")The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, in its own
words, “provides leadership and training in data access, curation,
and methods of analysis for the social science research community.” The
ICPSR data archive stores thousands of datasets on a wide range of
topics. Researchers taking advantage of these datasets, however, are
caught in a bind. The terms and conditions for downloading any ICPSR
dataset state that one agrees “not to redistribute data or other
materials without the written agreement of ICPSR.” But to ensure that
one’s work can be reproduced, assessed, and built upon by others, one
must provide access to the raw data one employed. The
icpsrdata package cuts this knot by providing programmatic,
reproducible access to ICPSR’s datasets from within R.
For more details, check out the vignette.