making .csv files easily accessible

[teixeirak]

@forestgeoadm , you asked about downloading single .csv files... Let's use ForestGEO climate data sources.csv as an example. The way to do this would be go to Raw and then copy-paste into Excel or such, then convert text to columns using comma delimiter.

For this particular file (and probably others), that doesn't work nicely. Thus, it isn't a great solution, but seems to be the best there is. (I consulted @rudeboybert on this.)

For files that we want to be super user friendly, like ForestGEO climate data sources.csv, I need to think of some other solution--or at least convert them to formats that would be cleaner with the copy-paste.

[rudeboybert]

(Sorry @teixeirak, I neglected your ask of the final step of actually having a .csv file)

You could do the following after opening the "raw" version of the page. In your browser's menu bar, go to File -> Save Page As... At that point on my browser at least (macOS using Chrome as a browser) I have the option of saving as a CSV. If you don't have that option, making sure to save the page with filename that ends in .csv might do the trick.

[rudeboybert]

This on my end at least saves me the trouble of cutting and pasting into another program. Please let me know if this doesn't work for you.

[forestgeoadm]

Hi @rudeboybert and @teixeirak,

Thank you for these instructions - they were super novice friendly! Working on PC and in Chrome I opened the raw version, did "Ctrl" + "S," and saved the CSV option (which came up as the default option).

Take care,
Caly

[forestgeoadm]

Hi @rudeboybert & @teixeirak,

I added a "Quick Tip" blurb to the main README page with these instructions. Hopefully that helps orient folks who are new to GitHub.

Take care,
Caly

[teixeirak]

Thanks, Caly!

[forestgeoadm]

My pleasure!