fetch: Fetch a dataset via the Data Retriever

In zhangcandrew/rdataretriever: R Interface to 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.

Examples

## 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)

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