Downloads TalkBank data and saves it to disk — get_talkbank

Downloads the utterances, transcripts, participants, tokens, and token types data from the TalkBank database and saves it to disk in the specified target directory.

Usage

get_talkbank_data(
  corpus_name,
  corpus_path,
  target_dir,
  force = FALSE,
  confirmed = FALSE
)

Arguments

corpus_name: The name of the TalkBank corpus to download data from.
corpus_path: The path to the TalkBank corpus to download data from.
target_dir: The directory to save the downloaded data to.
force: If TRUE, the data will be downloaded even if it already exists on disk.
confirmed: If TRUE, the user has confirmed that they have permission to use the data. If FALSE, the function will prompt the user to confirm permission. Setting this to TRUE is useful for reproducible workflows.

Value

A message indicating whether the data was acquired or already existed on disk.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# Download CABNC data from the Conversation Bank to a directory called "data"
get_talkbank_data(corpus_name = "ca", corpus_path = c("ca", "CABNC"), target_dir = "data")
}