preprocess_iucn: preprocess_iucn

In boettiger-lab/taxadb-cache: Backend for generating taxadb cache

preprocess_iucn

Description

preprocess_iucn

Usage

preprocess_iucn(
  url = "~/Documents/data/redlist-downloads-2019-11-25",
  output_paths = c(dwc = "2019/dwc_iucn.tsv.bz2", common = "2019/common_iucn.tsv.bz2")
)

Arguments

url	Source of Catalogue of Life
output_paths	paths where output will be written: must be two paths, one named dwc, one named common

Details

Before you can use this function, you must first manually downoad IUCN data from your own account. Go to the Redlist website, create a user, login, and set search options to include taxonomy, synoynms, and common names Bird data is rate-limited – filter for Passerine birds, & then for all other birds to get it in two separate downloads Then also download all other vertabrates & invertabrates Unzip all downloads to a location specified in path

This approach is much faster & more thorough than the API approach taken in 'redlist.R'

boettiger-lab/taxadb-cache documentation built on March 20, 2023, 10:09 p.m.