parse_ebird: Parse eBird database query and prepare for SQLite database...

In adamdsmith/geobird: Query an eBird database by geography (e.g., shapefiles)

Description

This function parses the tab-delimited text files (.txt) provided by Cornell. Only fields relevant to the calculation of species-level geographic occurrence are preserved, and filters are applied to remove eBird records that were not identified to at least the species level, duplicate records present in group checklists and non-approved records. Records for species with an unspecified count of individuals are assigne a minimum value (i.e., 1) to indicate occurrence.

Usage

parse_ebird(file)

Arguments

file	character string of the file path to the tab-delimited eBird .txt file

Value

a data.frame

Examples

## Not run: 
# Parse and store eBird data from Florida into our SE_ebird SQLite database
# Assumes local database exists and prepared to accept records; see ?store_ebird
fl_birds <- parse_ebird("./Data/ebd_US-FL_relAug-2015.txt")
store_ebird(fl_birds)

## End(Not run)

adamdsmith/geobird documentation built on May 10, 2019, 5:13 a.m.