webDatabases: Grab the current version of the urls either locally or from...

In PredictiveEcology/webDatabases: Find And Download Canadian Forestry, Ecological And Other Natural Places Data

Description

Running this will get latest version of the urls, returned as a data.table.

Usage

webDatabases(dbUrl = NULL, local = FALSE, wide = FALSE)

Arguments

dbUrl	Character string where to look for web database. Defaults to the web database See details.
local	Logical. If FALSE the function gets the latest webDatabase table from the online repository. This will allow for the user to be always up to date, but it also slower than TRUE. If TRUE, then this will take the version of the webDatabase that existed when the user installed the package.
wide	Logical. If TRUE, returns the wide form of database. Default FALSE

Details

The current webDatabase is located at Web Database

Value

A data.table with 4 columns, dataset, url, password, and files, keyed by dataset, files.

Author(s)

Melina Houle

Examples

data <- webDatabases()

# Which datasets are available?
unique(data$dataset)

# pick out KNN
data[dataset=="KNN"]

PredictiveEcology/webDatabases documentation built on May 8, 2019, 3:09 p.m.