avisMapSpecies: Renders a map for each of the species provided in names

In rAvis: Interface to the Bird-Watching Dataset Proyecto AVIS

Description

This function map the species occurrences in the Iberian Peninsula.

Usage

avisMapSpecies(names, maptype = "admin", ...)

Arguments

names	scientific name of the species (it could be a list of scientific names). E.g. "Pica pica"
maptype	Available types of map are 'admin', administrative provinces of Spain (by default) or 'phys', physical map of Spain.
...	other filters passed to the observations query with avisQuerySpecies

Details

For constructing these maps we used free online map repositories. We downloaded the Spanish administrative map from http://www.diva-gis.org/ and the Spanish physical map of http://www.openstreetmap.org/ using the R- library OpenStreetMap.

Value

a plot with the occurrences of the species in the Iberian Peninsula. Maps have high resolution, so they could be printed.

Examples

## Not run: 

avisMapSpecies("Bubo bubo", "phys")

# if interested in several species, you can explore the database using avisMapSpecies
avisMapSpecies (list("Tyto alba", "Athene noctua", "Bubo bubo", "Strix aluco"),
               maptype="phys")

# and you can save those maps individually using the tiff function

directory<- "C:/your_directory"
species<- list("Tyto alba", "Athene noctua", "Bubo bubo", "Strix aluco")
for (x in species){
 tiff (file.path (directory, paste ("/", x, ".tiff", sep="")))
 avisMapSpecies (x)
 dev.off()
}


## End(Not run)

rAvis documentation built on May 2, 2019, 3:28 p.m.