Check for the Latest FishBase and SeaLifeBase Releases — check_fishbase

This function lists the FishBase and SeaLifeBase releases published online (the static snapshots used by the rfishbase package) and compares the newest with the releases downloaded on this computer.

Usage

check_fishbase_update(
  server = c("fishbase", "sealifebase"),
  data_dir = fao_data_dir(),
  quiet = FALSE
)

Arguments

server: "fishbase", "sealifebase" or both (default).
data_dir: The directory where downloaded data is stored. Default is fao_data_dir().
quiet: A logical value. If TRUE, no message is printed. Default is FALSE.

Value

Invisibly, a data frame with one row per server: newest online release (NA when offline), newest downloaded release, number of tables online and downloaded, and whether an update is available (update_available: TRUE when nothing has been downloaded or a newer release is online; a release of which only the tables the package needs were downloaded is up to date).

References

Froese, R. and Pauly, D. (Eds.) FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. https://www.fishbase.se

Palomares, M.L.D. and Pauly, D. (Eds.) SeaLifeBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. https://www.sealifebase.se

Boettiger, C., Lang, D.T. and Wainwright, P.C. (2012). rfishbase: exploring, manipulating and visualizing FishBase data from R. Journal of Fish Biology 81(6): 2030-2039. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8649.2012.03464.x . Source code: https://github.com/ropensci/rfishbase

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
check_fishbase_update()
} # }