processData_ISCN3: Load ISCN Layer and Meta data

In ktoddbrown/soilDataR: Scripts to read in and harmonize different digital soil data archives

Description

This function first downloads the layer and meta data from the ISCN website. ISCN (http://iscn.fluxdata.org/data/access-data/database-reports/) data available: ftp://ftp.fluxdata.org/.deba/ISCN/ALL-DATA/ISCN_ALL_DATA_LAYER_C1_1-1.xlsx ftp://ftp.fluxdata.org/.deba/ISCN/ALL-DATA/ISCN_ALL_DATA_LAYER_C2_1-1.xlsx ftp://ftp.fluxdata.org/.deba/ISCN/ALL-DATA/ISCN_ALL_DATA_LAYER_C3_1-1.xlsx ftp://ftp.fluxdata.org/.deba/ISCN/ALL-DATA/ISCN_ALL_DATA_LAYER_C4_1-1.xlsx

Usage

processData_ISCN3(dataDir = NULL, verbose = FALSE,
  onlyISCNKey = FALSE, loadVars = NULL)

Arguments

dataDir	path to the folder contianing ISCN_ALL_DATA_LAYER_C*_1-1.xlsx, ISCN_ALL-DATA-CITATION_1-1.xlsx and ISCN_ALL_DATA_DATASET_1-1.xlsx files. If this is left NULL then files will be downloaded to a temporary directory from the ISCN website and then deleted.
verbose	boolean flag denoting whether or not to print lots of status messages
onlyISCNKey	boolean flag to only return the processed ISCN3 key which is slightly different then SoilDataR::ISCNKey.df. The regular expressions in the variable column are matched to the column names.
loadVars	an array of characters to read in only certain variables. If NULL then all the variables will be read in.

ktoddbrown/soilDataR documentation built on May 30, 2019, 9:56 p.m.