fetch: Fetch a dataset via the Data Retriever

In ropensci/rdataretriever: R Interface to the Data Retriever

Fetch a dataset via the Data Retriever

Description

Each datafile in a given dataset is downloaded to a temporary directory and then imported as a data.frame as a member of a named list.

Usage

fetch(dataset, quiet = TRUE, data_names = NULL)

Arguments

dataset	the names of the dataset that you wish to download
quiet	logical, if true retriever runs in quiet mode
data_names	the names you wish to assign to cells of the list which stores the fetched dataframes. This is only relevant if you are downloading more than one dataset.

Value

Returns a dataframe of dataset

Examples

## Not run: 
## fetch the portal Database
portal <- rdataretriever::fetch("portal")
class(portal)
names(portal)
## preview the data in the portal species datafile
head(portal$species)
vegdata <- rdataretriever::fetch(c("plant-comp-ok", "plant-occur-oosting"))
names(vegdata)
names(vegdata$plant_comp_ok)

## End(Not run)

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