Download taxonomic databases

Source: R/db_download.R

Download taxonomic databases

db_download_ncbi(verbose = TRUE, overwrite = FALSE)

db_download_itis(verbose = TRUE, overwrite = FALSE)

db_download_tpl(verbose = TRUE, overwrite = FALSE)

db_download_wfo(verbose = TRUE, overwrite = FALSE)

db_download_col(verbose = TRUE, overwrite = FALSE)

db_download_gbif(verbose = TRUE, overwrite = FALSE)

db_download_wikidata(verbose = TRUE, overwrite = FALSE)

Arguments

verbose

(logical) Print messages. Default: TRUE
overwrite

(logical) If TRUE force an update by overwriting previously downloaded data. Default: FALSE

Value

(character) path to the downloaded SQL database

Details

Downloads sql database, cleans up unneeded files, returns path to sql file

See also

tdb_cache

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# ITIS
# db_download_itis()
# src_itis()

# Plantlist
# db_download_tpl()
# db_download_tpl(overwrite=TRUE) # overwrite - download again
# src_tpl()

# COL
# db_download_col()
# src_col()

# GBIF
# db_download_gbif()
# src_gbif()

# NCBI
# db_download_ncbi()
# src_ncbi()

# Wikidata
# db_download_wikidata()
# db_download_wikidata(overwrite=TRUE) # overwrite - download again
# src_wikidata()

# World Flora Online
# db_download_wfo()
# src_wfo()
}