birdscanR (version 0.3.0)

getEchoValidationTable: Get a BirdScan echo validation table

Description

gets the echoValidationTable from an already connected database

Usage

getEchoValidationTable(dbConnection, dbDriverChar)

Value

A dataframe called echovalidationTable

Arguments

dbConnection

a valid database connection

dbDriverChar

dbDriverChar 'SQL Server' The name of the driver. Should be either 'SQL Server' or 'PostgreSQL'. If 'PostgreSQL', it connects to cloud.birdradar.com

Author

Fabian Hertner, ; Birgen Haest,

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# Set server and database settings
# ===========================================================================
  dbServer       = "MACHINE\\SERVERNAME"     # Set the name of your SQL server
  dbName         = "db_Name"                   # Set the name of your database
  dbDriverChar   = "SQL Server"                # Set either "SQL Server" or "PostgreSQL"

# Open the connection with the database
# ===========================================================================
  dsn = paste0("driver=", dbDriverChar, ";server=", dbServer,
               ";database=", dbName,
               ";uid=", rstudioapi::askForPassword("Database user"),
               ";pwd=", rstudioapi::askForPassword("Database password"))
  dbConnection = RODBC::odbcDriverConnect(dsn)

echovalidationTable = getEchoValidationTable(dbConnection, dbDriverChar)
}