GetColumnDescriptions {predictsr} | R Documentation |
Get a dataframe describing the columns in the PREDICTS database extract.
Description
This function returns a dataframe containing the column descriptions for the PREDICTS database extract.
Usage
GetColumnDescriptions(...)
Arguments
... |
extra arguments passed to read.csv. |
Details
The PREDICTS - Predicting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems - database contains a large number of columns, each corresponding to a variable describing the site or the observation. This function accesses the column descriptions for the PREDICTS database extract.
The column descriptions are provided as a dataframe, with each row corresponding to a column in the PREDICTS database extract.
There are two releases of the PREDICTS database, an initial release in 2016, and an additional release in 2022. The user chooses whether to pull summary data for the 2016 and/or 2022 release.
The data are provided under a CC NC (non-commercial) license, which means that they cannot be used for commercial purposes. The 2016 release is available under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, and the 2022 release is available under a CC NC (any) license.
Value
The column descriptions in the format as a dataframe.
Examples
descriptions <- GetColumnDescriptions()