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An R package for maintaining a library of satellite-derived and similar environmental data.

See RAADTools for reading, plotting, and manipulating these data.

Installing

install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)
install_github("AustralianAntarcticDataCentre/raadsync")

Configuration files

Configuration files are used to tell raadsync which data sets to synchronise, along with settings such as the location of the data directory. A default configuration file is provided as part of the package:

system.file("extdata", "raad_repo_config.json", package = "raadsync")

You will need to modify this configuration to suit your purposes (in particular, the default configuration sets do_sync to FALSE for all datasets, so it won't actually synchronise any data until you override one or more of these).

There are two different ways to manage configurations:

1. Default

Use the default configuration with local adjustments (recommended if you intend to mostly use datasets already defined in the default file). Create a local configuration file that alters or adds to the default configuration. Start with the example local configuration file provided in the package:

file.copy(system.file("extdata","sample_local_config.json", package = "raadsync"),
          "/path/to/your/local_config.json")

Edit /path/to/your/local_config.json to suit your needs.

Then to use this configuration in combination with the default configuration file:

cf = read_repo_config("/path/to/your/local_config.json")
sync_repo(cf)

2. Custom

Use your own configuration file entirely. You can use the default configuration file as a starting point.

When using solely your own configuration file, specify NULL for the default_config_file parameter in read_repo_config:

cf = read_repo_config("/path/to/your/config.json", NULL)
sync_repo(cf)