Access 'gbif' dataset information

check_gbif_datasets searches for dataset information from gbif.

Usage

check_gbif_datasets(path = ".")

Arguments

path

Directory path where the output .csv file will be saved. By default is downloaded to the current working directory (".").

Value

returns dataset csv from gbif

Details

This function queries for dataset info in the open-access online repository gbif. It saves a csv file in a the supplied `path` directory (~42 MB). The file contains some 89000 rows of datasets to explore.

References

GBIF.org (2024), GBIF Home Page. Available from: https://www.gbif.org [13 January 2020].

See also

check_gbif_datasets, query_observation, query_wikiaves, query_inaturalist,

Author

Marcelo Araya-Salas (marcelo.araya@ucr.ac.cr)

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# download dataset information
check_gbif_datasets()
} # }