Helper function to download and parse CSV data from the Green Algorithms
project repositories. This function handles the specific format used by
Green Algorithms data files, which often have headers in specific rows.
Usage
csv_from_url_ga(url, remove_first_line = TRUE)
Arguments
- url
Character string with URL to a raw CSV file from Green Algorithms repository
- remove_first_line
Logical (default TRUE). Whether to remove the first line
from the CSV file (often contains metadata rather than column headers).
Value
A data.frame with properly formatted column names and data
Examples
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Download carbon intensity data
carbon_intensity <- csv_from_url_ga(
paste0(
"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GreenAlgorithms/GA-data",
"/5266caba6601dae0ffc93af8971e758f55292e08/v3.0/CI_aggregated.csv"
)
)
head(carbon_intensity)
} # }