Uses the httr and rvest packages to scrape the PEP725 website for phenology data. Login credentials are required so this does not constitute a breach of the license agreement / data policy. Please register here for access to the data: http://www.pep725.eu/data_download/registration.php and carefully read the data use policy: http://www.pep725.eu/downloads/PEP_725_Data_Policy_201012.pdf
pr_dl_pep725(credentials, species = 115, path = tempdir(), internal = FALSE)Arguments
- credentials
Text file with your PEP725 email and password credentials. The credentials file is a file which lists your email and password on two separate lines (in this order).
- species
A species to download, either specified by its species number or species name. list species numbers and names with check_pep725_species(list = TRUE)
- path
the path where to save the downloaded data
- internal
completes download internally in a temporary directory and merges the data subsequently using merge_pep725(), returns a nested list of tidy data. internal overrides the path command.
Value
will return csv files of PEP725 data for the selected species
Examples
if (FALSE) {
pr_dl_pep725(credentials = "~/pep725_login.txt",
species = 115)
}