BIEN_plot_country function

Download plot data from specified countries.

BIEN_plot_country downloads all plot data from specified countries.

BIEN_plot_country(
  country = NULL,
  country.code = NULL,
  cultivated = FALSE,
  new.world = NULL,
  all.taxonomy = FALSE,
  native.status = FALSE,
  natives.only = TRUE,
  political.boundaries = FALSE,
  collection.info = FALSE,
  all.metadata = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

• country: A country or vector of countries.
• country.code: A single country code or a vector of country codes equal in length to the vector of states/province codes.
• cultivated: Return cultivated records as well? Default is FALSE.
• new.world: NULL (The default) returns global records, TRUE returns only New World, and FALSE only Old World.
• all.taxonomy: Return all taxonomic information? This includes the raw data as well as the "scrubbed" data.
• native.status: Return information on introduction status? The default value is FALSE. A value of TRUE also returns additional information on introduction status.
• natives.only: Exclude detected introduced species? Default is TRUE.
• political.boundaries: Return information on political boundaries for an observation? The default value is FALSE.
• collection.info: Return additional information about collection and identification? The default value is FALSE.
• all.metadata: Should additional plot metadata be returned? Default is FALSE.
• ...: Additional arguments passed to internal functions.

Returns

A dataframe containing all data from the specified countries.

Note

US FIA coordinates have been fuzzed and swapped, for more details see: https://www.fia.fs.fed.us/tools-data/spatial/Policy/index.php

Political division (or political division code) spelling needs to be exact and case-sensitive, see BIEN_metadata_list_political_names for a list of political divisions and associated codes.

Examples

## Not run:

BIEN_plot_country("Costa Rica")
BIEN_plot_country(c("Costa Rica","Panama"))
## End(Not run)

See Also

Other plot functions: BIEN_plot_dataset(), BIEN_plot_datasource(), BIEN_plot_list_datasource(), BIEN_plot_list_sampling_protocols(), BIEN_plot_metadata(), BIEN_plot_name(), BIEN_plot_sampling_protocol(), BIEN_plot_sf(), BIEN_plot_state()