MADcomm: Make A Database of community data
In pearselab/nacdb: Make A Database of traits

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s)

View source: R/MADcomm.R

The key function of the MADcomm package. When run with defaults, it will download and build a database of species' traits from all the manuscript sources in the package. This totals XXX manuscripts/databases, XXX species, and XXX traits. Please note that all parameters are interactive; thus specifying species and traits constraints will constraint according to both, for example. Please also note that specifying any kind of constraints makes use of the package's built-in cache of what species and traits information are available in each database; making use of this on the GitHub (developer) build of this package is not advisable, and (further) it is impossible for us to verify whether the datasets NATDB searches have been updated since the package was last built.

1	MADcomm(cache, datasets, delay = 5)

`cache`	Folder where cached downloads are stored
`datasets`	Character vector of datasets to be searched for trait data. If not specified (the default) all trait datasets will be downloaded and returned.
`delay`	How long to wait between downloads (to save server overload); default is 5 seconds.