The goal of pacnvegetation is to provide easy-to-use functions for working with PACN vegetation data.
You can install the development version from GitHub with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("jakegross808/pacn-veg-package")This package is designed to invisibly load the raw data into memory so
that the user doesn’t have to keep track of it. To do this, you must
call LoadPACNVeg any time you call library(pacnvegetation). The
package handles the rest! LoadPACNVeg invisibly returns a list
containing all the raw data if you need it for testing purposes.
By default, LoadPACNVeg will cache the data on your local hard drive
for 7 days so that you don’t have to pull the data over the network
every time. Expect it to take a couple minutes to load data from the
databases. Loading cached data should only take a few seconds though.
library(pacnvegetation)
# Change this to point to your EIPS database(s)
access_dbs <- c("path/to/eips_database_1.mdb", "path/to/eips_database_2.mdb", "path/to/eips_database_master.mdb")
# Load the data
LoadPACNVeg(ftpc_params = "pacnveg", eips_paths = access_dbs)For more details, see the documentation.
- LoadPACNVeg: Load the raw data into memory (see above).
- WritePACNVeg: Write data to csv. Provides options to filter data if desired.
- PlotAndTransectLocations: Lat/long coordinates of each plot and transect.
- MapPACNVeg: Map plot and/or transect locations.
- UnderNativityCoverTotal: Calculate understory % cover by nativity.
- ClearPACNVegCache: Clear the data from the cache used by LoadPACNVeg. Typically not needed but useful if you need to free up hard drive space.
- FilterPACNVeg: You can use this to retrieve and optionally filter the raw data. Useful for troubleshooting and preliminary data exploration, but this function is primarily used within other package functions.
Bugs and feature requests can be added as issues here: https://github.com/jakegross808/pacn-veg-package/issues