This project aims to download the PanTHERIA database (Kate et al., 2009) and the WWF WildFinder database (World Wildlife Fund 2006). It is structured as a research compendium to be reproducible.
NB. This is the result of the Practice 1 of the training course Reproducible Research in Computational Ecology.
This project is structured as follow:
. ├─ practice.Rproj # RStudio project file |
├─ README.md # Presentation of the project ├─ DESCRIPTION # Project metadata ├─ LICENSE.md # License of the project |
├─ data/ # Contains raw data
| ├─ pantheria/ # PanTHERIA database
| | └─ PanTHERIA_1-0_WR05_Aug2008.txt | └─ wildfinder/ # WWF WildFinder database
| ├─ wildfinder-ecoregions_list.csv | ├─ wildfinder-ecoregions_species.csv | └─ wildfinder-mammals_list.csv |
├─ outputs/ # Contains results
├─ figures/ # Contains figures
├─ R/ # Contains R functions (only)
| ├─ dl_pantheria_data.R # Function to download PanTHERIA data | └─ dl_wildfinder_data.R # Function to download WildFinder data |
├─ analyses/ # Contains R scripts
| └─ download-data.R # Script to download raw data |
└─ make.R # Script to setup & run the project
Coming soon…
Open the practice.Rproj file in RStudio and run source("make.R") to launch
analyses.
data/ directoryThis project is released under the GPL-2 license.
Doe J (2024) Download PanTHERIA and WWF WildFinder databases.
Kate EJ, Bielby J, Cardillo M et al. (2009) PanTHERIA: A species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals. Ecology, 90, 2648. DOI: 10.1890/08-1494.1
World Wildlife Fund (2006) WildFinder: Online database of species distributions. Version Jan-06. URL: https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/wildfinder-database