Download utilities and other helpers for getting the ICEWS event data from Dataverse.
Icews uses the following options() to configure behavior:
icews.debug: set to TRUE to print additional diagnostic messages
in various functions.
Options that control file and database paths, and which should be set
with setup_icews():
icews.data_dir: Path to the directory in which data will be kept
locally. Depending on the other settings, subdirectories like "raw" and
"db" will be created within.
icews.use_db: Use a SQLite database to store the data?
icews.keep_files: If "use_db" is TRUE, retain the raw data TSV
files or delete after ingesting to the database?
See https://github.com/andybega/icews and https://www.andybeger.com/icews/ for more information.
Boschee, Elizabeth; Lautenschlager, Jennifer; O'Brien, Sean; Shellman, Steve; Starz, James; Ward, Michael, 2015, ``ICEWS Coded Event Data'', doi:10.7910/DVN/28075 , Harvard Dataverse.
Boschee, Elizabeth; Lautenschlager, Jennifer; O'Brien, Sean; Shellman, Steve; Starz, James, 2018, ``ICEWS Weekly Event Data'', doi:10.7910/DVN/QI2T9A , Harvard Dataverse.
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