The download_ecoregion() function accesses and downloads United States Ecoregions data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Ecorgions. Level 3 data, where all pieces of information in the higher levels are included, are downloaded.
Zip and/or data files will be downloaded and stored in
directory_to_save.
Arguments
epa_certificate_path
character(1). Path to the certificate file
for EPA DataCommons. Default is
'extdata/cacert_gaftp_epa.pem' under the package installation path.
certificate_url
character(1). URL to certificate file. See notes for
details.
directory_to_save
character(1). Directory to save data. Two
sub-directories will be created for the downloaded zip files ("/zip_files")
and the unzipped data files ("/data_files").
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.
download
logical(1). FALSE will generate a *.txt file
containing all download commands. By setting TRUE the function
will download all of the requested data files.
remove_command
logical(1).
Remove (TRUE) or keep (FALSE)
the text file containing download commands.
unzip
logical(1). Unzip zip files. Default TRUE.
remove_zip
logical(1). Remove zip file from
directory_to_download. Default FALSE.
hash
logical(1). By setting TRUE the function will return
an rlang::hash_file() hash character corresponding to the
downloaded files. Default is FALSE.