Download, Update, and/or load data — data

This function downloads, updates or loads locally stored data. Currently this function returns wells, wells_sf, or lithology data. Note that these data are originally from GWELLS, but are cleaned and summarized for use in the bcaquiferdata package. For example wells_sf is a spatial version of the data, and lithology is a cleaned and standardized version of lithology. wells also contains the new standardized lithology data, along with the original lithology observations and intermediate classification steps to simplify error tracing.

Usage

data_read(type, update = FALSE, permission = FALSE)

Arguments

type: Character. Type of data to return, one of wells, wells_sf, or lithology
update: Logical. Force update of the data?
permission: Logical. Permission to create the cache folder. If FALSE, user is asked for permission, if TRUE, permission is implied.

Value

Data frame or spatial features object of the requested data.

Details

Under normal circumstances, users will not need to use this function as it is used internally by the main workflow functions. However, users may wish to overview entire datasets.

Bear in mind that the lithology cleaning and standardizing, while better than the original data, will almost certainly still have errors!

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
wells <- data_read("wells")
}