getWDPA: Function to download WDPA data for a country

View source: R/getWDPA.R

getWDPAR Documentation

Function to download WDPA data for a country

Description

This function downloads the WDPA shapefile for a country (www.protectedplanet.net). If the file is already on disk it will not perform the download.

Usage

getWDPA(cod, destfolder = "WDPA", unzip = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

cod

Three letter ISO code for the country.

destfolder

The destination folder

unzip

Unzip the downloaded files? Defaults to TRUE

...

Options for download.file()

Details

https://www.protectedplanet.net

Author(s)

Andrea Sánchez-Tapia & Sara Mortara

Examples

## Not run: 
getWDPA(cod = "BRA", unzip = TRUE)

## End(Not run)


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