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eLTER get_site_boundaries function

Source: R/get_site_boundaries.R
get_site_boundaries.Rd

[Stable] This internal function retrieves the boundary of a specified eLTER site and a view of the site boundaries on a leaflet map is shown. All the info are taken from the DEIMS-SDR sites API. If the boundary is missing, a warning message is printed in the R console.

Usage

get_site_boundaries(deimsid, show_map = FALSE, with_locations = FALSE)

Arguments

deimsid

A character. The DEIMS ID of the site from DEIMS-SDR website. DEIMS ID information here.

show_map

A boolean or the string "return". When TRUE a leflet object (a map) is returned and plotted. Default FALSE. When the value is "return", the leaflet object is returned but not plotted.

with_locations

A boolean. When TRUE all site boundaries and related locations are returned (Sampling Location or Equipment Location). Default FALSE.

Value

The output of the function is a list with slots:

  • data An sf object with the the boundary of the site. If the boundary is missing from DEIMS-SDR, a tibble with the name and URI of the site.

  • locations A tibble with the locations' details if with_locations is TRUE, otherwise NULL.

The function output

Map of "LTER Zöbelboden, Austria" with locations

Author

Alessandro Oggioni, phD (2020) oggioni.a@irea.cnr.it

Micha Silver, phD (2021) silverm@post.bgu.ac.il

Paolo Tagliolato, phD tagliolato.p@irea.cnr.it

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# LTER Zöbelboden
boundaries <- get_site_boundaries(
  deimsid = "https://deims.org/8eda49e9-1f4e-4f3e-b58e-e0bb25dc32a6",
  show_map = TRUE,
  with_locations = TRUE
)
boundaries
} # }