gbif_local: Local connection to a downloaded GBIF Parquet database

In gbifdb: High Performance Interface to 'GBIF'

Local connection to a downloaded GBIF Parquet database

Description

Local connection to a downloaded GBIF Parquet database

Usage

gbif_local(
  dir = gbif_parquet_dir(version = gbif_version(local = TRUE)),
  tblname = "gbif",
  backend = c("arrow", "duckdb"),
  safe = TRUE
)

Arguments

dir	location of downloaded GBIF parquet files
tblname	name for the database table
backend	choose duckdb or arrow.
safe	logical. Should we exclude columns mediatype and issue? (default TRUE). varchar datatype on these columns substantially slows downs queries.

Details

A summary of this GBIF data, along with column meanings can be found at https://github.com/gbif/occurrence/blob/master/aws-public-data.md

Value

a remote tibble tbl_sql class object

Examples

gbif <- gbif_local(gbif_example_data())

gbifdb documentation built on Oct. 20, 2023, 1:08 a.m.