ifcb_download_whoi_plankton {iRfcb} | R Documentation |
Download and Extract WHOI-Plankton Data
Description
This function downloads WHOI-Plankton annotated plankton images (Sosik et al. 2015) for specified years
from https://hdl.handle.net/1912/7341.
The extracted .png
data are saved in the specified destination folder.
Usage
ifcb_download_whoi_plankton(
years,
dest_folder,
extract_images = TRUE,
max_retries = 10,
quiet = FALSE
)
Arguments
years |
A vector of years (numeric or character) indicating which datasets to download. The available years are currently 2006 to 2014. |
dest_folder |
A string specifying the destination folder where the files will be extracted. |
extract_images |
Logical. If |
max_retries |
An integer specifying the maximum number of attempts to retrieve data. Default is 10. |
quiet |
Logical. If TRUE, suppresses messages about the progress and completion of the download process. Default is FALSE. |
Value
If extract_images = FALSE
, returns a data frame containing metadata of downloaded image files.
Otherwise, no return value; files are downloaded and extracted to dest_folder
.
References
Sosik, H. M., Peacock, E. E. and Brownlee E. F. (2015), Annotated Plankton Images - Data Set for Developing and Evaluating Classification Methods. doi:10.1575/1912/7341
Examples
## Not run:
# Download and extract images for 2006 and 2007 in the data folder
ifcb_download_whoi_plankton(c(2006, 2007),
"data",
extract_images = TRUE)
## End(Not run)