jabot_parse

Parse Darwin Core Archive files
jabotR::jabot_parse()

Description

Read Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) files from any downloaded dwca folder at JABOT hosted by the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden.

Arguments

Argument Description
path Pathway to the computer’s directory, where the REFLORA-downloaded dwca folders are.
herbarium A vector of specific herbarium acronyms (collection code) in uppercase letters or leave it as NULL to parse specimen records for all herbarim dcwa folders in the defined path directory.
verbose Logical, if FALSE, a message showing steps when summarizing specimen records will not be printed in the console in full.

Value

A list of dwca files, including data and associated metada.

Examples

jabot_download(herbarium = c("ALCB", "HUEFS", "K", "RB"),
               verbose = TRUE,
               dir = "jabot_download")

dwca <- jabot_parse(path = "jabot_download",
                    verbose = TRUE)