wpgpGetPOPTable: wpgpGetPOPTable function will download a population csv

In wpgp/wpgpCovariates: wpgpCovariates Package for downloading raster datasets from WorldPop FTP

Description

wpgpGetPOPTable function will download a population csv

Usage

wpgpGetPOPTable(ISO3 = NULL, year = NULL, destDir = tempdir(),
  username = NULL, password = NULL, quiet = TRUE, overwrite = TRUE,
  method = "auto")

Arguments

ISO3	a 3-character country code
year	Year of the dataset you would like to download.
destDir	Path to the folder where you want to save poptable file
username	ftp username to WorldPop ftp server
password	ftp password to WorldPop ftp server
quiet	Download Without any messages if TRUE
overwrite	Logical. Overwrite the poptable csv file if it already exists
method	Method to be used for downloading files. Current download methods are "internal", "wininet" (Windows only) "libcurl", "wget" and "curl", and there is a value "auto"

Value

dataframe

Examples

wpgpGetPOPTable("AGO",2000,"G:/WorldPop/",username = "ftpUsername",password = "ftpPassword")

wpgp/wpgpCovariates documentation built on May 29, 2019, 11:58 a.m.