vegdata (version 0.8.6)

vegetweb: Retrieve data from vegetweb

Description

VegetWeb is the national vegetation database of Germany, see http://www.vegetweb.de. Webservices are designed to retrieve data baskets, selected within the plattform. Access is granted through user accounts and individual clearances. vw.survey will search for projects (Publication titles with vegetation plots implemented in vegetweb.). vw.site retrieves plot header data and vw.veg the plant taxon observations in the usual plot x species matrix.

Usage

vw.survey(searchstring, ...)
  vw.site(user, password, survey, basket, ...)
  vw.veg(user, password, survey, basket, taxeval = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

user

username

password

Password

searchstring

Part of the project title to select projects from the list of available vegetation surveys.

survey

Identifier of the vegetweb project.

basket

Shopping basket id of your vegetweb selection.

taxeval

Taxonomic harmonization of occurring taxa

...

additional arguments

Examples

vw.survey('Leyer')
veg <- vw.veg('[e-mail]', 'vegetweb', 466)
site <- vw.site('[e-mail]', 'vegetweb', 466)
library(rgeos)
coord <- SpatialMultiPointsDataFrame(sapply(site$geom, readWKT), data.frame(a=1:nrow(site)))
plot(coord, axes = TRUE)