gbif_download {gbifdb}

Download GBIF data using minioclient

Description

Sync a local directory with selected release of the AWS copy of GBIF

Usage

gbif_download(
  version = gbif_version(),
  dir = gbif_dir(),
  bucket = gbif_default_bucket(),
  region = ""
)

Arguments

version

Release date (YYYY-MM-DD) which should be synced. Will detect latest version by default.

dir

path to local directory where parquet files should be stored. Fine to leave at default, see gbif_dir().

bucket

Name of the regional S3 bucket desired. Default is "gbif-open-data-us-east-1". Select a bucket closer to your compute location for improved performance, e.g. European researchers may prefer "gbif-open-data-eu-central-1" etc.

region

bucket region (usually ignored? Just set the bucket appropriately)

Details

Sync parquet files from GBIF public data catalog, https://registry.opendata.aws/gbif/.

Note that data can also be found on the Microsoft Cloud, https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/dataset/gbif

Also, some users may prefer to download this data using an alternative interface or work on a cloud-host machine where data is already available. Note, these data include all CC0 and CC-BY licensed data in GBIF that have coordinates which passed automated quality checks, see https://github.com/gbif/occurrence/blob/master/aws-public-data.md.

Value

logical indicating success or failure.

Examples

gbif_download()