Read the PREDICTS database into either a dataframe.

This returns the complete PREDICTS database extract from the latest release/s. The data were collected as part of the PREDICTS project - Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems, and comprise of two releases. The first was in 2016, and the second in 2022. This function accesses the 2016 and/or 2022 release.

Usage

GetPredictsData(extract = c(2016, 2022))

Arguments

extract

numeric, year/s corresponding to PREDICTS database releases to download. Options are 2016 or 2022. Defaults to c(2016, 2022) - the whole dataset.

Value

A dataframe containing the v1.1 PREDICTS database extract/s.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
  predicts <- GetPredictsData()
  predicts_2016 <- GetPredictsData(extract = 2016)
} # }