data-raw/README.md
In ecohealthalliance/cites: Fast access to the CITES Wildlife Trade Database
Data processing for cites
The scripts in this directory process the data for the CITES package.
cites_codes.R uses the tabulizer package to extract codes from
the database guide cites_codes(), cites_metadata(), cites_parties().
scrape_cites.R processes the larger CITES database. It does do by
querying the CITES website repeatedly to get yearly-scale CSVs of the data.
For many years, the website GUI won't let you download files of these size
(those > 1 million records), but querying the export directly is fine, if slow.
The raw exported annual CITES files are kept on AWS S3 at https://s3.console.aws.amazon.com/s3/buckets/cites-trade-data/ (public link: https://s3.amazonaws.com/cites-trade-data/).
Once the .fst file is generated, it can be attached to this package as a
release using datastorr::github_release_create. Please read the help file
for this function before doing so. Also, before relase,
one should update the package version in DESCRIPTION and commit all changes to GitHub.
v0.1.0 of cites has the CITES data as extracted on 2018-03-06.
ecohealthalliance/cites documentation built on May 4, 2019, 6:40 p.m.
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Data processing for cites
The scripts in this directory process the data for the CITES package.
cites_codes.R uses the tabulizer package to extract codes from
the database guide cites_codes(), cites_metadata(), cites_parties().
scrape_cites.R processes the larger CITES database. It does do by
querying the CITES website repeatedly to get yearly-scale CSVs of the data.
For many years, the website GUI won't let you download files of these size
(those > 1 million records), but querying the export directly is fine, if slow.
The raw exported annual CITES files are kept on AWS S3 at https://s3.console.aws.amazon.com/s3/buckets/cites-trade-data/ (public link: https://s3.amazonaws.com/cites-trade-data/).
Once the .fst file is generated, it can be attached to this package as a
release using datastorr::github_release_create. Please read the help file
for this function before doing so. Also, before relase,
one should update the package version in DESCRIPTION and commit all changes to GitHub.
v0.1.0 of cites has the CITES data as extracted on 2018-03-06.
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