fqar (version 0.5.6)

download_assessment: Download a single floristic quality assessment

Description

download_assessment() retrieves a specified floristic quality assessment from universalfqa.org. ID numbers for assessments in various databases can be found using the index_fqa_assessments() function.

Usage

download_assessment(assessment_id, timeout = 4)

Value

An untidy data frame in the original format of the Universal FQA website, except that the assessment id number has been appended in the first row. Use assessment_glance() for a tidy summary and

assessment_inventory() for species-level data.

Arguments

assessment_id

A numeric identifier of the desired floristic quality assessment, as specified by universalfqa.org. ID numbers for assessments in specified databases can be viewed with the index_fqa_assessments() function.

timeout

Number of seconds to query UniversalFQA before timing out.

Examples

# \donttest{
databases <- index_fqa_databases() # Database 1 is the original 1994 Chicago edition.

chicago_assessments <- index_fqa_assessments(1) # Edison dune and swale has id number 25002.
edison <- download_assessment(25002)

edison_tidy <- assessment_glance(edison)
# }