Download World drainage basins spatial layer — get_drainage_basins

Downloads the spatial layer of drainage basins of the World available on the Figshare website (https://figshare.com/collections/A_global_database_on_freshwater_fish_species_occurrences_in_drainage_basins/3739145).

Usage

get_drainage_basins_layer(path = ".", overwrite = FALSE, timeout = 60, ...)

Arguments

path: a character of length 1. The path to the folder to save the spatial layer. Note that a subdirectory basins/ will be created.
overwrite: a logical. If TRUE it will override the existing files. Default is FALSE.
timeout: an integer. The timeout for downloading files. Default is 60. This number can be increased for slow Internet connection.
...: other arguments to pass to download.file() (e.g. headers).

Value

No return value. Files will be written in path.

References

Tedesco P et al. (2017) A global database on freshwater fish species occurrence in drainage basins. Scientific Data, 4, 170141. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.141.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
## Download drainage basins spatial layer ----
get_drainage_basins_layer(path = "data")
}