GetSpNames: Read BBS meta-data

In oharar/rBBS: Imports North American Breeding Bird Survey data

Description

Read in list of species names, from SpeciesList.txt, and then extract list of where the data is kept

Usage

GetSpNames(Dir="ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/BBS/DataFiles/")

Arguments

Dir	Directory to get data. Defaults to ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/BBS/DataFiles/, the USGS FTP server

Value

Data frame with these columns:

Seq	phylogenetic sequence number
AOU	American Ornithological Union code number
English_Common_Name	English Common Name
French_Common_Name	French Common Name
Spanish_Common_Name	Spanish Common Name
ORDER	Taxonomic order
Family	Taxonomic family
Genus	Taxonomic genus
Species	Taxonomic species name

Author(s)

Bob O'Hara

References

Sauer, J. R., J. E. Hines, J. E. Fallon, K. L. Pardieck, D. J. Ziolkowski, Jr., and W. A. Link. 2014. The North American Breeding Bird Survey, Results and Analysis 1966 - 2012. Version 02.19.2014 USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD

Examples

## Here you go...
## Species <- GetSpNames()

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