bioatles-open-paren-close-paren: Downloading species ocurrence data (presences) from Bioatles

In xavi-rp/PreSPickR: Downloading Species Presences (Occurrences) From Public Repositories

Downloading species ocurrence data (presences) from Bioatles

Description

Download species (presences) data from the Bioatles http://bioatles.caib.es. As data in Bioatles is projected in European Datum 1950 (31N), the function also trensform it in Lat/Long Geographic Coordinates System WGS84. bioatles() is based on several functions included in the packages "rvest" (Wickham, 2016) and "xml2" (Wickham et al., 2017). Finally, it saves the data in a csv file.

Usage

bioatles(sp_dir = NULL, sp_list = NULL, out_name = "sp_records")

Arguments

sp_dir	Directory of the species list
sp_list	A csv file name or a vector containing species to be downloaded
out_name	Name to the output data set (csv file)

Details

The aim of this script is to define the function bioatles(), which is used to download species (presences) data from the Bioatles http://bioatles.caib.es. As data in Bioatles is projected in European Datum 1950 (31N), the function also trensform it in Lat/Long Geographic Coordinates System WGS84. bioatles() is based on several functions included in the packages "rvest" (Wickham, 2016) and "xml2" (Wickham et al., 2017). Finally, it saves the data in a csv file.

Value

An csv file with the occurrences in Lat/Long Geographic Coordinates System WGS84.

Author(s)

Xavier Rotllan-Puig

xavi-rp/PreSPickR documentation built on March 27, 2022, 7:30 a.m.