pg_search: Search the Pangaea database

In pangaear: Client for the 'Pangaea' Database

Description

Search the Pangaea database

Usage

pg_search(
  query,
  count = 10,
  offset = 0,
  topic = NULL,
  bbox = NULL,
  mindate = NULL,
  maxdate = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

query	(character) Query terms. You can refine a search by prefixing the term(s) with a category, one of citation, reference, parameter, event, project, campaign, or basis. See examples.
count	(integer) Number of items to return. Default: 10. Maximum: 500. Use offset parameter to page through results - see examples
offset	(integer) Record number to start at. Default: 0
topic	(character) topic area: one of NULL (all areas), "Agriculture", "Atomosphere", "Biological Classification", "Biospshere", "Chemistry", "Cryosphere", "Ecology", "Fisheries", "Geophysics", "Human Dimensions", "Lakes & Rivers", "Land Surface", "Lithosphere", "Oceans", "Paleontology"
bbox	(numeric) A bounding box, of the form: minlon, minlat, maxlon, maxlat
mindate, maxdate	(character) Dates to search for, of the form "2014-10-28"
...	Curl options passed on to crul::verb-GET

Details

This is a thin wrapper around the GUI search interface on the page https://www.pangaea.de. Everything you can do there, you can do here.

Value

tibble/data.frame with the structure:

• score: match score, higher is a better match

• doi: the DOI for the data package

• size: size number

• size_measure: size measure, one of "data points" or "datasets"

• citation: citation for the data package

• supplement_to: citation for what the data package is a supplement to

See Also

pg_search_es()

Examples

## Not run: 
pg_search(query='water')
pg_search(query='water', count=2)
pg_search(query='water', count=20)
pg_search(query='water', mindate="2013-06-01", maxdate="2013-07-01")
pg_search(query='water', bbox=c(-124.2, 41.8, -116.8, 46.1))
pg_search(query='reference:Archer')
pg_search(query='parameter:"carbon dioxide"')
pg_search(query='event:M2-track')
pg_search(query='event:TT011_2-CTD31')
pg_search(query='project:Joint Global Ocean Flux Study')
pg_search(query='campaign:M2')
pg_search(query='basis:Meteor')

# paging with count and offset
# max is 500 records per request - if you need > 500, use offset and count
res1 <- pg_search(query = "florisphaera", count = 500, offset = 0)
res2 <- pg_search(query = "florisphaera", count = 500, offset = 500)
res3 <- pg_search(query = "florisphaera", count = 500, offset = 1000)
do.call("rbind.data.frame", list(res1, res2, res3))

# get attributes: maxScore, totalCount, and offset
res <- pg_search(query='water', bbox=c(-124.2, 41.8, -116.8, 46.1))
attributes(res)
attr(res, "maxScore")
attr(res, "totalCount")
attr(res, "offset")

# curl options
pg_search(query='citation:Archer', verbose = TRUE)

## End(Not run)

pangaear documentation built on May 14, 2021, 9:05 a.m.