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:
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├─ 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.
- All packages will be automatically installed and loaded
- Datasets will be saved in the
data/directory
This 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