BIEN_plot_country: Download plot data from specified countries.

In BIEN: Tools for Accessing the Botanical Information and Ecology Network Database

Download plot data from specified countries.

Description

BIEN_plot_country downloads all plot data from specified countries.

Usage

BIEN_plot_country(
  country = NULL,
  country.code = NULL,
  cultivated = FALSE,
  new.world = NULL,
  all.taxonomy = FALSE,
  native.status = FALSE,
  natives.only = TRUE,
  political.boundaries = FALSE,
  collection.info = FALSE,
  all.metadata = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

country	A country or vector of countries.
country.code	A single country code or a vector of country codes equal in length to the vector of states/province codes.
cultivated	Return cultivated records as well? Default is FALSE.
new.world	NULL (The default) returns global records, TRUE returns only New World, and FALSE only Old World.
all.taxonomy	Return all taxonomic information? This includes the raw data as well as the "scrubbed" data.
native.status	Return information on introduction status? The default value is FALSE. A value of TRUE also returns additional information on introduction status.
natives.only	Exclude detected introduced species? Default is TRUE.
political.boundaries	Return information on political boundaries for an observation? The default value is FALSE.
collection.info	Return additional information about collection and identification? The default value is FALSE.
all.metadata	Should additional plot metadata be returned? Default is FALSE.
...	Additional arguments passed to internal functions.

Value

A dataframe containing all data from the specified countries.

Note

US FIA coordinates have been fuzzed and swapped, for more details see: https://www.fia.fs.fed.us/tools-data/spatial/Policy/index.php

Political division (or political division code) spelling needs to be exact and case-sensitive, see BIEN_metadata_list_political_names for a list of political divisions and associated codes.

See Also

Other plot functions: BIEN_plot_dataset(), BIEN_plot_datasource(), BIEN_plot_list_datasource(), BIEN_plot_list_sampling_protocols(), BIEN_plot_metadata(), BIEN_plot_name(), BIEN_plot_sampling_protocol(), BIEN_plot_sf(), BIEN_plot_state()

Examples

## Not run: 
BIEN_plot_country("Costa Rica")
BIEN_plot_country(c("Costa Rica","Panama"))
## End(Not run)

BIEN documentation built on Jan. 6, 2023, 9:06 a.m.