A [DBI]-style database connection to GBIF data — gbif_conn • gbifdb

Returns a database connection to the local GBIF parquet file.

Usage

gbif_conn(
  dir = gbif_parquet_dir(version = gbif_version(local = TRUE)),
  tblname = "gbif",
  backend = c("arrow", "duckdb")
)

Arguments

dir: the directory containing all parquet files to be read
tblname: name of the table to be created in the duckdb VIEW
backend: Use arrow or duckdb as backend connection?

Value

a DBIconnection object

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()

gbif.parquet <- gbif_example_data()
con <- gbif_conn(gbif.parquet)
}