get_avesdata_repo: Download the AvesData full repository

In clootl: Fetch and Explore the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Open Tree of Life Avian Phylogeny

Download the AvesData full repository

Description

Pull down full AvesData repository to a working directory

Usage

get_avesdata_repo(path, overwrite = FALSE)

Arguments

path	Path to download data zipfile to, and where it will be unpacked. To download into your working directory, use "."
overwrite	Default to FALSE. If path exists, will not re-download the data unless overwrite=TRUE.

Details

Will download full data repo from https://github.com/McTavishLab/AvesData. This data is required to use sampleTrees() to sample from the distribution of dated trees, or to access earlier versions of the complete tree. This function will download the data and set an environmental variable AVESDATA_PATH to the location of the data download. When AVESDATA_PATH is set, the data_path in any clootl functions with a data_path argument will default to this value. To manually set AVESDATA_PATH to the location of your downloaded AvesData repo use set_avesdata_repo_path()

Value

No return value. This function is used to download the Aves Data repository.

clootl documentation built on April 24, 2026, 1:07 a.m.