download_data {amadeus}R Documentation

Download raw data wrapper function

Description

The download_data() function accesses and downloads atmospheric, meteorological, and environmental data from various open-access data sources.

Usage

download_data(
  dataset_name = c("aqs", "ecoregion", "ecoregions", "geos", "gmted", "koppen",
    "koppengeiger", "merra2", "merra", "modis", "narr", "nlcd", "noaa", "sedac_groads",
    "sedac_population", "groads", "population", "hms", "smoke", "tri", "nei", "gridmet",
    "terraclimate", "huc", "cropscape", "cdl", "prism"),
  directory_to_save = NULL,
  acknowledgement = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

dataset_name

character(1). Dataset to download.

directory_to_save

character(1). Directory to save / unzip (if zip files are downloaded) data.

acknowledgement

logical(1). By setting TRUE the user acknowledges that the data downloaded using this function may be very large and use lots of machine storage and memory.

...

Arguments passed to each download function.

Value

NULL; Data files will be downloaded and stored in respective sub-directories within directory_to_save. File format and sub-directory names depend on data source and dataset of interest.

Note

Author(s)

Insang Song

See Also

For details of each download function per dataset, Please refer to:

Examples

download_data(
  dataset_name = "narr",
  variables = "weasd",
  year = c(2023, 2023),
  directory_to_save = tempdir(),
  acknowledgement = TRUE,
  download = FALSE, # NOTE: download skipped for examples,
  remove_command = TRUE
)

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