Function reference • bcdata

Interacting with the B.C. Data Catalogue

Functions to search, browse, list, and explore records and their resources (data sets) in the B.C. Data Catalogue

bcdc_browse(): Load the B.C. Data Catalogue URL into an HTML browser

bcdc_search(): Search the B.C. Data Catalogue

bcdc_search_facets(): Get the valid values for a facet (that you can use in bcdc_search())

bcdc_list(): Return a full list of the names of B.C. Data Catalogue records

bcdc_get_record(): Show a single B.C. Data Catalogue record

bcdc_tidy_resources(): Provide a data frame containing the metadata for all resources from a single B.C. Data Catalogue record

bcdc_list_groups() bcdc_list_group_records(): Retrieve group information for B.C. Data Catalogue

bcdc_list_organizations() bcdc_list_organization_records(): Retrieve organization information for B.C. Data Catalogue

bcdc_get_citation(): Generate a bibentry from a Data Catalogue Record

Direct downloads of data sets

Directly download (or preview) data sets (resources) from the B.C. Data Catalogue

bcdc_get_data(): Download and read a resource from a B.C. Data Catalogue record

bcdc_preview(): Get preview map from the B.C. Web Map Service

bcdc_read_functions(): Formats supported and loading functions

Querying data from a Web Feature Service catalogue record

Issue queries using select and filter verbs against data sets in the B.C. Data Catalogue that have a Web Feature Service.

bcdc_query_geodata(): Query data from the B.C. Web Feature Service

bcdc_describe_feature(): Describe the attributes of a Web Feature Service

filter(<bcdc_promise>): Filter a query from bcdc_query_geodata()

select(<bcdc_promise>): Select columns from bcdc_query_geodata() call

mutate(<bcdc_promise>): Throw an informative error when attempting mutate on a bcdc_promise object

collect(<bcdc_promise>) as_tibble(<bcdc_promise>): as_tibble

EQUALS() DISJOINT() INTERSECTS() TOUCHES() CROSSES() WITHIN() CONTAINS() OVERLAPS() BBOX() DWITHIN(): CQL Geometry Predicates

bcdc_check_geom_size(): Check spatial objects for WFS spatial operations

CQL(): CQL escaping

bcdc_options(): Retrieve options used in bcdata, their value if set and the default value.