predictsr (version 0.2.0)

GetSitelevelSummaries: Get the PREDICTS database site level summaries.

Description

This acesses summary data for the relevant PREDICTS database extract.

Usage

GetSitelevelSummaries(extract = c(2016, 2022))

Value

The site-level summary data as a dataframe.

Arguments

extract

Numeric, year/s corresponding to PREDICTS database releases to download. Options are 2016 or 2022. Defaults to c(2016, 2022) - the whole dataset.

Details

The PREDICTS database contains site-level summaries of the data collected as part of the PREDICTS project - Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems.

The site-level summaries are provided as a dataframe, with each row corresponding to a site-level observation, and each column corresponding to a variable describing the site or the observation. The data are provided in a standardised format, with column names that are consistent across the database.

There are two releases of the PREDICTS database, an initial release in 2016, and an additional release in 2022. The user chooses whether to pull summary data for the 2016 and/or 2022 release.

The data are provided under a CC NC (non-commercial) license, which means that they cannot be used for commercial purposes. The 2016 release is available under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, and the 2022 release is available under a CC NC (any) license.

Examples

# \donttest{
  summaries <- GetSitelevelSummaries()
  summaries_2016 <- GetSitelevelSummaries(extract = 2016)
# }