auk_year: Filter the eBird data to a set of years

In auk: eBird Data Extraction and Processing in R

Filter the eBird data to a set of years

Description

Define a filter for the eBird Basic Dataset (EBD) based on a set of years. 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_year(x, year, replace = FALSE)

Arguments

x	auk_ebd or auk_sampling object; reference to file created by auk_ebd() or auk_sampling().
year	integer; years to filter to.
replace	logical; multiple calls to auk_year() are additive, unless replace = FALSE, in which case the previous list of years to filter by will be removed and replaced by that in the current call.

Details

For filtering to a range of dates use auk_date(); however, sometimes the goal is to extract data for a given year or set of years, in which case auk_year() is simpler. In addition, auk_year() can be used to get data from discontiguous sets of years (e.g. 2010 and 2012, but not 2011), which is not possible with auk_date(). Finally, auk_year() can be used in conjunction with auk_date() to extract data from a given range of dates within a set of years (see example below).

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_country(), 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()

Examples

# years to filter to
years <- c(2010, 2012)
# set up filter
system.file("extdata/ebd-sample.txt", package = "auk") %>%
  auk_ebd() %>%
  auk_year(year = years)
  
# alternatively, without pipes
ebd <- auk_ebd(system.file("extdata/ebd-sample.txt", package = "auk"))
auk_year(ebd, years)

# filter to may and june of 2010 and 2012
system.file("extdata/ebd-sample.txt", package = "auk") %>%
  auk_ebd() %>%
  auk_year(year = c(2010, 2012)) %>% 
  auk_date(date = c("*-05-01", "*-06-30"))

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