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willpearse / MADtraits

Make A Database of trait data
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About MADtraits #96

Open fabeit opened 4 years ago

fabeit commented 4 years ago

I would like to better understand what this package does as it sounds interesting, I have read the main page but I am not sure I understand.

It takes a .csv file and formats it into a format that follow the traitdatabase standard that is described in Kissling et al. 2018?

willpearse commented 4 years ago

Thanks for your interest! It's similar to how you describe, but not quite. It is a series of download functions that take data from an existing, published source (often using that source's DOI, and not normally in CSV format), then merges them into a common format (that isn't that of Kissling 2018). It's compatible with MADtraits ( https://github.com/willpearse/MADtraits) in case that's a useful reference?

I hope that helps, let me know if you have any other questions.