Download the latest version of Catálogo Taxonômico da Fauna do Brasil

This function downloads the latest or an older version of Catálogo Taxonômico da Fauna do Brasil database, merges the information into a single data.frame, and saves this data.frame in the specified directory.

get_faunabr(output_dir, data_version = "latest",
                 solve_discrepancies = TRUE, translate = TRUE,
                 overwrite = TRUE, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

output_dir: (character) a directory to save the data downloaded from Fauna do Brasil
data_version: (character) Version of the Fauna do Brasil database to download. Use "latest" to get the most recent version, which is updated frequently. Alternatively, specify an older version (e.g., data_version = "1.2").Default value is "latest".
solve_discrepancies: Resolve inconsistencies between species and subspecies information. When set to TRUE (default), species information is updated based on unique data from subspecies. For example, if a subspecies occurs in a certain state, it implies that the species also occurs in that state.
translate: (logical) whether to translate the original dataset ("lifeForm", "origin", "habitat", and "taxonRank") from Portuguese to English. Default is TRUE.
overwrite: (logical) If TRUE, data is overwritten. Default = TRUE.
verbose: (logical) Whether to display messages during function execution. Set to TRUE to enable display, or FALSE to run silently. Default = TRUE.

Value

The function downloads the latest version of the Catálogo Taxonômico da Fauna do Brasil database from the official source. It then merges the information into a single data.frame, containing details on species, taxonomy, occurrence, and other relevant data. The merged data.frame is then saved as a file in the specified output directory. The data is saved in a format that allows easy loading using the load_faunabr function for further analysis in R.

References

Brazilian Zoology Group. Catálogo Taxonômico da Fauna do Brasil. Available at: https://ipt.jbrj.gov.br/jbrj/resource?r=catalogo_taxonomico_da_fauna_do_brasil

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
#Creating a folder in a temporary directory
#Replace 'file.path(tempdir(), "faunaabr")' by a path folder to be create in
#your computer
my_dir <- file.path(file.path(tempdir(), "faunabr"))
dir.create(my_dir)
#Download, merge and save data
get_faunabr(output_dir = my_dir)
} # }