FAIBOracle

The package is used to load data from three major forest inventory databases in Forest Analysis and Inventory Branch: VGIS, GYS and ISMC. VGIS is the database for ground sample data in NVAF, VRI phase II, changing monitoring inventory (CMI), young stand monitoring (YSM) and Lidar projects (L and B). GYS is the home for natural growth PSP sample data and TSPs. ISMC stands for Inventory Sample Management Consolidation, and is the home for both data from VGIS and GYS. Currently, ISMC is under development.

Installation

The package is only can be installed and ran in 64-bit R. Because the package is built on a 64-bit R and 64-bit ROracle client.

To install our package, ROracle package must be installed in your R environment. Installation of is tricky, as it involves the following steps:

• Install a 64-bit Oracle client on your machine if it is not available. A 64-bit Oracle client can be downloaded here, follow the instruction here, also showing below:

  • Download BASE into your target folder, say C:/oracle. In you target folder, you will find a folder called instantclient_??. Unzip SDK zip file into instantclient?? and you will have sdk folder in instantclient?_?.

  • Download and install RTools here

• Download an ROracle from CRAN on here and save it to a target path, say C:/your/path/to/roracle

• Open CMD prompt and make some specifications

  • set PATH=C:\oracle\instantclient_?_?;\path\to\Rtools\bin
  • set OCI_LIB64=C:\oracle\instantclient_?_?
  • set OCI_INC=C:\oracle\instantclient_?_?\sdk\include

• Install ROracle in CMD prompt using

  • “C:/path/to/R/bin/x64/R” CMD INSTALL –build “C:/Your/Path/To/oracle/ROracle_1.1-10.tar.gz”

• Sometimes, the include files in C:\oracle?*?\sdk\include* must be manually copied to C:/path/to/R/include, due to the permission issue.

After ROracle is installed, our package can be installed using following codes:

install.packages(c("dplyr", "data.table", "rmarkdown", "openxlsx"))
install.packages("path/to/FAIBOracle_??.tar.gz",
                 repos = NULL, 
                 INSTALL_opts = "--no-multiarch")

Usage

Example

This is a basic example which shows you how to solve a common problem:

## basic example code

Project Status

Getting Help or Reporting an Issue

To report bugs/issues/feature requests, please file an issue.

How to Contribute

If you would like to contribute to the package, please see our CONTRIBUTING guidelines.

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

License

Copyright 2019 Province of British Columbia

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

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