Local connection to a downloaded GBIF Parquet database
Usage
gbif_local(
dir = gbif_parquet_dir(version = gbif_version(local = TRUE)),
tblname = "gbif",
backend = "duckdb",
safe = TRUE
)
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?
- safe
logical, default TRUE. Should we exclude columns
mediatype`` and
issue`? 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())
}