partition_ebird_events: Partition the eBird Sampling Events Data File by...
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partition_ebird_events

R Documentation

Partition the eBird Sampling Events Data File by States/Provinces

Description

Relies heavily on package 'data.table' to import, filter, and write the sampling events data for each country of interest.

Usage

partition_ebird_events(
  dir.ebird.in,
  mmyyyy,
  outpath = NULL,
  overwrite = FALSE,
  out.filetype = ".csv.gz",
  countries = c("US", "CA", "MX"),
  ncores = NULL
)

Arguments

`dir.ebird.in`	directory path to where ebird sampling events is/are saved
`mmyyyy`	month and year associated with the sampling events file.
`outpath`	path location to where output files will be saved. If NULL will save to a directory within dir.ebird.in for each mmyyyy
`overwrite`	if TRUE, will overwrite existing partitioned file for country and mmyyyy combination
`out.filetype`	if writing new files, what file extension to search for? (e.g., .csv, .txt, .csv.gz).
`countries`	list of 2-letter country codes. Only sampling events from these countries will be partitioned into indiviudal sampling event files on local disk. Specify countries=NULL to partition all countries (this will take a while)
`ncores`	number of processors to engage during data import and export (using data.table)