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getFIA states = 'REF' fails due to bad URL #17

Closed lwrogers-uw closed 3 years ago

lwrogers-uw commented 3 years ago

getFIA(states = 'REF') returns:

Error in download.file(url, temp) : cannot open URL 'https://apps.fs.usda.gov/fia/datamart/CSV/REF.zip'

Correct URL should be:

https://apps.fs.usda.gov/fia/datamart/CSV/FIADB_REFERENCE.zip

hunter-stanke commented 3 years ago

Great catch - sorry for the delayed response. I just updated getFIA to point to the correct URL.

I've also made an update to readFIA that allows us to load reference tables alongside other FIA tables. For example, try:

library(rFIA)

## getFIA calls readFIA internally, same functionality for reading FIA data already on disk
db <- getFIA(states = c('RI', 'REF'))

Non-reference tables will be merged across states, consistent with previous behavior. Reference tables are simply added to the FIA.Database and denoted by prefix REF_.