Settings
You'll use occ_download
to kick off a download. You'll need to
give that function settings from your GBIF profile: your user name, your password,
and your email. These three settings are required to use the function. You can
pass these to the function call or set them as options either in the current R
session using the options
function, or by setting them in your
.Rprofile
file, after which point they'll be read in automatically, and
you won't need to pass them in to the function call. If yo set them in your
.Rprofile
file, they won't be available until you restart the R session.BEWARE
You can not perform that many downloads, so plan wisely.
See Rate limiting below.Rate limiting
If you try to launch too many downloads, you will receive an 420
"Enhance Your Calm" response. If there is less then 100 in total
across all GBIF users, then you can have 3 running at a time. If
there are more than that, then each user is limited to 1 only.
These numbers are subject to change.