queryAPI: Create query to grab data from API request
In VtEcostudies/VTatlas: Process data from VAL's API

Description Usage Arguments Value See Also Examples

View source: R/get_data.R

get_data is a wrapper for httr::GET that connects to Vermont Atlas of Life's API

queryAPI(
  query,
  type = "occurrences",
  fields = "all",
  quiet = FALSE,
  pageSize = NULL,
  spatialWKT = NULL
)

`query`	`list` of query terms `list('order:Odonata','etc')`
`type`	options include "TotalObs" and 'occurrences'. TotalObs returns only the number of observations. No data. occurrence returns data associated with occurrence records. default = occurrences.
`fields`	defaults to 'all'. see `dataFields` for returnable fields
`quiet`	defaults to `FALSE`, if `TRUE` prints brief description to console
`pageSize`	defaults to NULL which returns all records
`spatialWKT`	well-known text for a `POLYGON` or `MULTIPOLYGON`, defaults to null

data frame of results from query

dataFields for description of fields and which fields can be queried

## Not run: queryAPI(query = list("order:Odonata"),
                  type = 'occurrences',
                  fields = c('taxon_name','longitude','latitude','year'))
## End(Not run)