get_worldclim_rasters: Download Worldclim rasters

Description Usage Arguments Details Author(s) Examples

Description

Downloads and unzips 10min resolution Worldlclim rasters, stores them for reuse.

Usage

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get_worldclim_rasters(wc_vars = "tavg")

Arguments

wc_vars

The WorldClim variables to be downloaded, e.g. 'tavg', 'prec' (see get_climate_vars).

Details

Zip files are downloaded from http://biogeo.ucdavis.edu/data/worldclim/v2.0/tif/base. This function is normally not invoked by the user, since climate_presence as well as get_climate_vars download the rasters as needed. The path to download the rasters to is read from options()$worldclimpath.

Author(s)

Remko Duursma

Examples

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# Return worldclim tmean and prec rasters, as a list with those components
## Not run: 
wc <- get_worldclim_rasters(wc_vars=c("tavg","tmin"))

## End(Not run)

RemkoDuursma/speciesmap documentation built on May 9, 2019, 9:40 a.m.