auk_country: Filter the eBird data by country

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Filter the eBird data by country

Description

Define a filter for the eBird Basic Dataset (EBD) based on a set of countries. This function only defines the filter and, once all filters have been defined, auk_filter() should be used to call AWK and perform the filtering.

Usage

auk_country(x, country, replace = FALSE)

Arguments

x	auk_ebd or auk_sampling object; reference to file created by auk_ebd() or auk_sampling().
country	character; countries to filter by. Countries can either be expressed as English names or ISO 2-letter country codes. English names are matched via regular expressions using countrycode, so there is some flexibility in names.
replace	logical; multiple calls to auk_country() are additive, unless replace = FALSE, in which case the previous list of countries to filter by will be removed and replaced by that in the current call.

Details

This function can also work with on an auk_sampling object if the user only wishes to filter the sampling event data.

Value

An auk_ebd object.

See Also

Other filter: auk_bbox(), auk_bcr(), auk_breeding(), auk_complete(), auk_county(), auk_date(), auk_distance(), auk_duration(), auk_exotic(), auk_extent(), auk_filter(), auk_last_edited(), auk_observer(), auk_project(), auk_protocol(), auk_species(), auk_state(), auk_time(), auk_year()

Examples

# country names and ISO2 codes can be mixed
# not case sensitive
country <- c("CA", "United States", "mexico")
system.file("extdata/ebd-sample.txt", package = "auk") %>%
  auk_ebd() %>%
  auk_country(country)
  
# alternatively, without pipes
ebd <- auk_ebd(system.file("extdata/ebd-sample.txt", package = "auk"))
auk_country(ebd, country)

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