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Download occurrence data from the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA)

Source: R/atlasDownloader.R
atlasDownloader.Rd

Downloads ALA data and creates a new file in the path to put those data. This function can also request downloads from other atlases (see: http://galah.ala.org.au/articles/choosing_an_atlas.html). However, it will only send the download to your email and you must do the rest yourself at this point.

Usage

atlasDownloader(
  path,
  userEmail = NULL,
  ALA_taxon,
  DL_reason = 4,
  atlas = "ALA"
)

Arguments

path

A character directory. The path to a folder where the download will be stored.

userEmail

A character string. The email used associated with the user’s ALA account; user must make an ALA account to download data.

ALA_taxon

A character string. The taxon to download from ALA. Uses galah::galah_identify()

DL_reason

Numeric. The reason for data download according to galah::galah_config()

atlas

Character. The atlas to download occurrence data from - see here https://galah.ala.org.au/R/articles/choosing_an_atlas.html for details. Note: the default is "ALA" and is probably the only atlas which will work seamlessly with the rest of the workflow. However, different atlases can still be downloaded and a doi will be sent to your email.

Value

Completes an ALA data download and saves those data to the path provided.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
atlasDownloader(path = DataPath,
               userEmail = "InsertYourEmail",
               ALA_taxon = "Apiformes",
               DL_reason = 4)
               } # }