Update your current rdhs config — update_rdhs

update_rdhs_config allows you to update elements of your rdhs config, without having to set it completely via set_rdhs_config. For each config element, provide the new changes required. To update your password, set password = TRUE and you will be asked securely for your new password.

update_rdhs_config(
  password = FALSE,
  email = NULL,
  project = NULL,
  cache_path = NULL,
  config_path = NULL,
  global = NULL,
  verbose_download = NULL,
  verbose_setup = NULL,
  timeout = NULL,
  data_frame = NULL,
  project_choice = NULL
)

Arguments

password: Logical for updating your password securely. Default = FALSE
email: Character for email used to login to the DHS website.
project: Character for the name of the DHS project from which datasets should be downloaded.
cache_path: Character for directory path where datasets and API calls will be cached. If left bank, a suitable directory will be created within your user cache directory for your operating system (permission granting).
config_path: Character for where the config file should be saved. For a global configuration, `config_path` must be '~/.rdhs.json'. For a local configuration, `config_path` must be 'rdhs.json'. If left bank, the config file will be stored within your user cache directory for your operating system (permission granting).
global: Logical for the config_path to be interpreted as a global config path or a local one. Default = TRUE.
verbose_download: Logical for dataset download progress bars to be shown. Default = FALSE.
verbose_setup: Logical for rdhs setup and messages to be printed. Default = TRUE.
timeout: Numeric for how long in seconds to wait for the DHS API to respond. Default = 30.
data_frame: Function with which to convert API calls into. If left blank data_frame objects are returned. Must be passed as a character. Examples could be: data.table::as.data.table tibble::as.tibble
project_choice: Numeric for project choice. See authenticate_dhs for more info.