Fetch a dataset via the Data Retriever — fetch • rdataretriever

Each datafile in a given dataset is downloaded to a temporary directory and then imported as a data.frame as a member of a named list.

Usage

fetch(dataset, quiet = TRUE, data_names = NULL)

Arguments

dataset: the names of the dataset that you wish to download
quiet: logical, if true retriever runs in quiet mode
data_names: the names you wish to assign to cells of the list which stores the fetched dataframes. This is only relevant if you are downloading more than one dataset.

Value

Returns a dataframe of dataset

Examples

if (FALSE) {
## fetch the portal Database
portal <- rdataretriever::fetch("portal")
class(portal)
names(portal)
## preview the data in the portal species datafile
head(portal$species)
vegdata <- rdataretriever::fetch(c("plant-comp-ok", "plant-occur-oosting"))
names(vegdata)
names(vegdata$plant_comp_ok)
}