grab_bbs_data: Downloads and Imports the BBS Observations and Associated...

In TrashBirdEcology/bbsAssistant: Download and Munge Data and Information from the North American Breeding Bird Survey

Downloads and Imports the BBS Observations and Associated Metadata

Description

This function will download, unpack, and import the BBS dataset and associated metadata for a single dataset release. Defaults to the most recent version of the BBS dataset. Wrapper for internal functions download_bbs_data(), unpack_bbs_data(), and import_bbs_data().

Usage

grab_bbs_data(sb_id = NULL, bbs_dir = NULL, overwrite = FALSE)

Arguments

sb_id	ScienceBase item number/identifier, used in sbtools.
bbs_dir	The location where the BBS data will be stored. If not specified, will create a directory within the working directory called "data-raw."
overwrite	Logical. Defaults to FALSE. FALSE will not download files if they exist in the specified directory.

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