meta: Metadata

In BirdStudiesCanada/naturecounts: Access and download data on plant and animal populations from NatureCounts

Metadata

Description

These functions return metadata codes, names, descriptions, and information associated with the data downloaded from NatureCounts.

Usage

meta_country_codes()

meta_statprov_codes()

meta_subnational2_codes()

meta_iba_codes()

meta_bcr_codes()

meta_utm_squares()

meta_species_authority()

meta_species_codes()

meta_species_taxonomy()

meta_collections()

meta_breeding_codes()

meta_project_protocols()

meta_projects()

meta_protocol_types()

meta_bmde_versions()

meta_bmde_fields(version = "minimum")

Arguments

version

Character. BMDE version for which to return fields. NULL returns all versions

Details

Some of these metadata are stored locally and can be updated with the nc_metadata() function. Others are downloaded as requested.

Value

Data frame

Functions

• meta_country_codes(): Country codes

• meta_statprov_codes(): State/Province codes

• meta_subnational2_codes(): Subnational2 codes

• meta_iba_codes(): Important Bird Area (IBA) codes

• meta_bcr_codes(): Bird Conservation Region (BCR) codes

• meta_utm_squares(): UTM Square codes

• meta_species_authority(): Species taxonomic authorities

• meta_species_codes(): Alpha-numeric codes for avian species

• meta_species_taxonomy(): Codes and taxonomic information for all species

• meta_collections(): Collections names and descriptions

• meta_breeding_codes(): Breeding codes and descriptions

• meta_project_protocols(): Project protocols

• meta_projects(): Projects ids, names, websites, and descriptions

• meta_protocol_types(): Protocol types and descriptions

• meta_bmde_versions(): Names and descriptions of the available versions of BMDE (Bird Monitoring Data Exchange). These refer to sets of fields/columns which can be downloaded for a given group of data. See nc_data_dl() for more details.

• meta_bmde_fields(): Fields/columns associated with a particular BMDE (Bird Monitoring Data Exchange) version. See meta_bmde_versions() for the different versions available, meta_collections() for which version is used by which project, and nc_data_dl() for more details on downloading data with a given set of fields/columns.

Examples

# Return fields/columns in the 'minimum' version
meta_bmde_fields()

# Retrun fields/columns in the 'core' version
meta_bmde_fields(version = "core")

# Return all possible fields
meta_bmde_fields(version = "extended")

BirdStudiesCanada/naturecounts documentation built on June 30, 2023, 1:59 a.m.