bbs_meta_bcr: Get Bird Conservation Region metadata for North American...
In patrickbarks/bbs: North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) in R

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References Examples

Get names and codes of Bird Conservation Regions (BCRs) from the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS). This data comes from the BBS file BCR.txt.

1	bbs_meta_bcr(bbs_dir = bbs_ftp())

bbs_dir

Directory from which to get data. Defaults to the USGS FTP directory for the most recent BBS release. May alternatively be a path to a local directory, or ftp address for an older BBS release.

A data.frame with the following columns:

`bcr`	integer code for BCR
`bcr_name`	name of BCR in English
`bcr_name_french`	name of BCR in French
`bcr_name_spanish`	name of BCR in Spanish

Bob O'Hara

Patrick Barks <patrick.barks@gmail.com>

Pardieck, K.L., D.J. Ziolkowski Jr., M. Lutmerding and M.-A.R. Hudson. 2018. North American Breeding Bird Survey Dataset 1966-2017, version 2017.0. U.S. Geological Survey, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. https://doi.org/10.5066/F76972V8

## Not run: 

# get from USGS ftp server
bcr <- bbs_meta_bcr()

# get from local working directory
bcr <- bbs_meta_bcr(bbs_dir = ".")

## End(Not run)