R/gbifread.R

In grjeschke/occupdr: Parses and Tidies Some Biodiversity Data

#' Read GBIF Raw Data
#' 
#' reads a csv file from GBIF.org with [fread()]
#' @param  input a tab-delimited csv
#' @return  tbl_df a tibble or dataframe
#' @keywords  parse, tsv
#' @export
#' @examples 
#' gbifread("tsvfilename.csv")


gbifread <- function(x){
  require(data.table) 
  fread(x, sep="\t", 
  header=TRUE, stringsAsFactors=FALSE, quote="")}