Fetch the COM(P)ADRE database from compadre-db.org or a local file

Source: R/cdb_fetch.R

Fetches the current version of a COM(P)ADRE database from https://compadre-db.org, or load any version stored in a local .RData file.

cdb_fetch(cdb, flag = FALSE)

Arguments

cdb

Either "comadre" or "compadre" (case insensitive) to fetch the most recent database from https://compadre-db.org, or a path to an existing COMPADRE database (i.e. .RData file) stored on the local machine.
flag

Logical argument where `TRUE` will automatically run cdb_flag to add logical columns to the metadata to flag potential problems in the matrix population models. Default is `FALSE`.

Value

A CompadreDB object

See also

Other data acquisition: cdb_build_cdb(), cdb_metadata()

Author

Patrick M. Barks <patrick.barks@gmail.com>

Owen R. Jones <jones@biology.sdu.dk>

Examples

if (FALSE) {
#Download direct from the COMPADRE website
compadre <- cdb_fetch("compadre")

#using file path to downloaded data
compadre <- cdb_fetch("data/COMPADRE_v.5.0.1.RData") 
}