datakind / Mar21-humanitarian-data

Volunteers will explore existing data on humanitarian response to identify areas of improvement opportunity - e.g. suggesting areas of greatest potential impact to provide care, and proposing optimization of routes for service delivery.
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Can FEWS food security data be read directly from URL? #30

Open rmcarder opened 3 years ago

rmcarder commented 3 years ago

In the Ethiopia data join R script (https://github.com/datakind/Mar21-humanitarian-data/blob/main/Scripts/EthiopiaJoins.R), all data sources are read in from URLs, with the exception of food security data from FEWS (https://fews.net/data), which was throwing an error. As is, this data was manually downloaded and then read in from local machine, which is not ideal for quick reproducibility. It would be an improvement if that shapefile could be read in directly from here: https://fews.net/fews-data/333