rvertnet (version 0.3.0)

spatialsearch: Find records within some distance of a point given latitude and longitude.

Description

Searches by decimal latitude and longitude to return any occurrence record within the input distance (radius) of the input point.

Usage

spatialsearch(lat, long, radius, limit = 1000, compact = TRUE,
  verbose = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

lat

Latitude of the central point, in decimal degrees (numeric) Required.

long

Longitude of the central point, in decimal degrees (numeric) Required.

radius

Radius to search, in meters (numeric). There is no default value for this parameter. Required.

limit

(numeric) Limit on the number of records returned. Up to 1000. We'll incorporate paging later for higher limits. See bigsearch to get larger result sets in a text file via email.

compact

Return a compact data frame (logical)

verbose

Print progress and information messages. Default: TRUE

...

Curl arguments passed on to GET

Value

• A data frame of search results

Details

spatialsearch finds all records of any taxa having decimal lat/long coordinates within a given radius (in meters) of your coordinates.

References

https://github.com/VertNet/webapp/wiki/The-API-search-function

Examples

res <- spatialsearch(lat = 33.529, long = -105.694, radius = 2000, limit = 10)

# Pass in curl options for curl debugging
library("httr")
out <- spatialsearch(lat = 33.529, long = -105.694, radius = 2000, limit = 10, config=verbose())