Local connection to a downloaded GBIF Parquet database
Usage
gbif_local(
dir = gbif_parquet_dir(version = gbif_version(local = TRUE)),
tblname = "gbif",
backend = c("arrow", "duckdb"),
safe = TRUE
)
Arguments
- dir
location of downloaded GBIF parquet files
- tblname
name for the database table
- backend
choose duckdb or arrow.
- safe
logical. Should we exclude columns
mediatype
andissue
? (defaultTRUE
). varchar datatype on these columns substantially slows downs queries.
Details
A summary of this GBIF data, along with column meanings can be found at https://github.com/gbif/occurrence/blob/master/aws-public-data.md
Examples
if (FALSE) { # interactive()
gbif <- gbif_local(gbif_example_data())
}