Request data from the ACLED Deletions API

This function allows users to pull deleted ACLED event IDs from the Deletions API.

Usage

acled_deletions_api(
  email = NULL,
  key = NULL,
  date_deleted = NULL,
  acled_access = TRUE,
  log = F
)

Arguments

email

character string. Email associated with your ACLED account registered at https://developer.acleddata.com.

key

character string. Access key associated with your ACLED account registered at https://developer.acleddata.com.

date_deleted

character string. Format 'yyyy-mm-dd' or Unix timestamp. The query will return all deleted events including and after the requested date/timestamp.

acled_access

logical. If TRUE it means that you have utilized the acled_access function and there is no need for the email and key arguments.

log

Only for testing purposes: you can use this to check if all the variables in your call were handled properly.

Value

Returns a tibble of ACLED data with columns for event_id_cnty and deleted_timestamp.

See also

• ACLED API guide

• Keeping ACLED data up to date guide

Other API and Access: acled_access(), acled_api(), acled_update()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{

# Request deleted ACLED events since January 1, 2022
acled_deletions_api(date_deleted = "2022-01-01", acled_acess = TRUE)
} # }