load_florabr {florabr}

Load Brazilian Flora database

Description

Load Brazilian Flora database

Usage

load_florabr(data_dir, data_version = "Latest_available",
                    type = "short", verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

data_dir

(character) the same directory used to save the data downloaded from Brazilian Flora 2020 using the get_florabr function.

data_version

(character) the version of Brazilian Flora database to be loaded. It can be "Latest_available", which will load the latest version available; or another specified version, for example "393.364". Default = "Latest_available".

type

(character) it determines the number of columns that will be loaded. It can be "short" or "complete". Default = "short". See details.

verbose

(logical) Whether to display messages during function execution. Set to TRUE to enable display, or FALSE to run silently. Default = TRUE.

Details

The parameter type accepts two arguments. If type = short, it will load a data.frame with the 19 columns needed to run the other functions of the package: species, scientificName, acceptedName, kingdom, Group, Subgroup, family, genus, lifeForm, habitat, Biome, States, vegetationType, Origin, Endemism, taxonomicStatus, nomenclaturalStatus, vernacularName, and taxonRank. If type = complete, it will load a data.frame with all 39 variables available in Brazilian Flora database.

Value

A data.frame with the specified version (Default is the latest available) of the Brazilian Flora database. This data.frame is necessary to run most of the functions of the package.

References

Brazilian Flora 2020. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro. Available at: http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/

Examples

## Not run: 
#Creating a folder in a temporary directory
#Replace 'file.path(tempdir(), "florabr")' by a path folder to be create in
#your computer
my_dir <- file.path(file.path(tempdir(), "florabr"))
dir.create(my_dir)
#Download, merge and save data
get_florabr(output_dir = my_dir, data_version = "latest", overwrite = TRUE,
            verbose = TRUE)
#Load data
df <- load_florabr(data_dir = my_dir, data_version = "Latest_available",
type = "short")

## End(Not run)