jabot_download

Download plant specimen records from JABOT
jabotR::jabot_download()

Description

Download plant specimen records in Darwin Core Format from any herbarium collection at JABOT hosted by the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden.

Arguments

Argument Description
herbarium A vector of specific herbarium acronyms (collection code) in uppercase letters or leave it as NULL to download records for all JABOT herbaria.
verbose Logical, if FALSE, a message showing steps when downloading herbarium specimen records will not be printed in the console in full.
dir Pathway to the computer’s directory, where the file will be saved. The default is to create a directory named jabot_download and the results will be saved within a subfolder named by each searched JABOT-associated herbarium collection.

Value

Folder with DwC-A files for an specific or all JABOT-associated herbaria.

Examples

jabot_download(herbarium = c("AFR", "RB"),
               verbose = TRUE,
               dir = "jabot_download")