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Tools to use EPPO Data Services from R
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accessing temporal Data #23

Open glockgustav opened 3 years ago

glockgustav commented 3 years ago

Dear Mr. Czyz,

I have two questions.

First, is there any possibility to be able to access the "reporting" column from the EPPO GD with your R Package. As far as I see it, you can only see the current distribution (which includes the info from the "reporting" collumn), we are intrested in the temporal aspect of those reports.

The second question is, if there is an easy way to create a pest vector with every EPPO Code, as to include every entry in the db.

Sincerely yours,

Gustav Glock.

mczyzj commented 3 years ago

Dear @glockgustav

  1. Currently the "reporting" cannot be accessed via EPPO API. Also there are no data files, only links to reports. This would require web-scraping, which would probably violate EPPO code of conduct. Thus, I am afraid this feature would not be available in foreseeable future (meaning until it is included in EPPO API).
  2. Not sure why to do this? Those are already in SQL db, so you can easily extract all the names and eppocodes directly from db (however not with this package).

Best,

Michał