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EcologicalTraitData / traitdataform

A package to manage and compile functional trait data into predefined templates
https://ecologicaltraitdata.github.io/traitdataform/
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include datasets for testing #47

Closed fdschneider closed 2 years ago

fdschneider commented 3 years ago

Since the reference to the external trait datasets on Dryad and other sources are not stable enough, a next version should include the raw data in the package. This would include

probably the other demo data would be removed to minimize these issues. Ideally, recipes for pulling datasets from published trait data (e.g. pantheria #43) would be provided elsewhere, e.g. through the Open Traits Network.

fdschneider commented 3 years ago

@willpearse You suggested to use the suppdata package to download the data with more stable references. That seems like the way to go.
Could you also give some example for the caching procedure you mentioned to keep CRAN calm.

willpearse commented 3 years ago

No worries! It's in SymbiotaR2 (https://github.com/ropensci/SymbiotaR2) and is the 'casette' package. It is perhaps fractionally fiddly to set up the first time, but then it 'just works' and is wonderful, genuinely.

fdschneider commented 2 years ago

Thanks, I solved this for now by including the small demo data into the package for offline availability and I exchanged some of the data downloads with suppdata calls. However, since two of the datasets are on esa archives, this was not available. I did not apply casette caching for now. But this might be usefull to wrap around repeated taxize calls.