gbif_dir

<p>Default location can be set with the env var GBIF_HOME,
otherwise will use the default provided by <code><a href="/link/tools%3A%3AR_user_dir()?package=gbifdb&version=1.0.0" data-mini-rdoc="gbifdb::tools::R_user_dir()">tools::R_user_dir()</a></code></p>

A high performance interface to the Global Biodiversity
Information Facility, 'GBIF'.  In contrast to 'rgbif', which can
access small subsets of 'GBIF' data through web-based queries to
a central server, 'gbifdb' provides enhanced performance for R users
performing large-scale analyses on servers and cloud computing
providers, providing full support for arbitrary 'SQL' or 'dplyr'
operations on the complete 'GBIF' data tables (now over 1 billion
records, and over a terabyte in size). 'gbifdb' accesses a copy
of the 'GBIF' data in 'parquet' format, which is already readily
available in commercial computing clouds such as the Amazon Open
Data portal and the Microsoft Planetary Computer, or can be
accessed directly without downloading, or downloaded
to any server with suitable bandwidth and storage space.
The high-performance techniques for local and remote access
are described in <https://duckdb.org/why_duckdb>
and <https://arrow.apache.org/docs/r/articles/fs.html> respectively.

Carl Boettiger

gbifdb

High Performance Interface to 'GBIF'

gbif_dir function

<p>Default location can be set with the env var GBIF_HOME,
otherwise will use the default provided by <code><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/tools/userdir.html'>tools::R_user_dir()</a></code></p>

gbif_dir: Default storage location

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