rdataretriever (version 3.1.1)

fetch: Fetch a dataset via 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)

Value

Returns a dataframe of dataset

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

if (FALSE) {
## 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)
}