bbsAssistant: An R package for downloading and handling data and information from the North American Breeding Bird Survey.
Dates
Publication Date
2019-12-02
Acquisition
2019
Repository Updated
2020-10-19
Citation
Burnett, J.L., Wszola, L., and Palomo-Muñoz, G. 2019, bbsAssistant: An R package for downloading and handling data and information from the North American Breeding Bird Survey: U.S. Geological Survey software release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P93W0EAW.
Summary
This R package contains functions for downloading and munging data from the North American Breeding Bird Survey via FTP. This package was created to allow the user to bulk-download the BBS point count and related (e.g., route-level conditions) via FTP, and to quickly subset the data by taxonomic classifications and/or geographical locations. This package also maintains data containing the trend and annual indices from the most recent hierarchical population trend analyses. NOTE: This ScienceBase object provides Version 1.0.0 of the R package 'bbsAssistant' and subsequent major releases. Stable, major and minor releases are also available at the USGS Biolab GitHub repository for 'bbsAssistant'. The development version is maintained [...]
Summary
This R package contains functions for downloading and munging data from the North American Breeding Bird Survey via FTP. This package was created to allow the user to bulk-download the BBS point count and related (e.g., route-level conditions) via FTP, and to quickly subset the data by taxonomic classifications and/or geographical locations. This package also maintains data containing the trend and annual indices from the most recent hierarchical population trend analyses.
Burnett, J.L., Palomo-Munoz, G., and Wszola, L.S., 2019, bbsAssistant: An R package for downloading and handling data and information from the North American Breeding Bird Survey: Journal of Open Source Software, v. 4, no. 44, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01768.
