Package 'ReLTER'

Title: An Interface for the eLTER Community
Description: ReLTER provides access to DEIMS-SDR (https://deims.org/), and allows interaction with data and software implemented by eLTER Research Infrastructure (RI) thus improving data sharing among European LTER projects. ReLTER uses the R language to access and interact with the DEIMS-SDR archive of information shared by the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) network. This package grew within eLTER H2020 as a major project that will help advance the development of European Long-Term Ecosystem Research Infrastructures (eLTER RI - https://elter-ri.eu). The ReLTER package functions in particular allow to: - retrieve the information about entities (e.g. sites, datasets, and activities) shared by DEIMS-SDR (see e.g. get_site_info function); - interact with the ODSEurope (maps.opendatascience.eu) starting with the dataset shared by DEIMS-SDR (https://deims.org/) (see e.g. the get_site_ODS() function); - use the eLTER site informations to download and crop geospatial data from other platforms (see e.g. get_site_ODS function()); - improve the quality of the dataset (see e.g. get_id_worms()). Functions currently implemented are derived from discussions of the needs among the eLTER users community. The ReLTER package will continue to follow the progress of eLTER-RI and evolve, adding new tools and improvements as required.
Authors: Alessandro Oggioni [aut, cre, fnd] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7997-219X>), Micha Silver [aut, ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1128-1325>), Paolo Tagliolato [aut, ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0261-313X>), Luigi Ranghetti [aut, ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6207-5188>), Allison Horst [rev] (Allison reviewed the package (v. 1.0.0) for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/485), Will Bolton [rev] (Will reviewed the package (v. 1.0.0) for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/485), Mauro Lepore [edt] (Mauro was editor for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/485)
Maintainer: Alessandro Oggioni <[email protected]>
License: GPL (>= 3)
Version: 3.0.0
Built: 2026-02-14 08:51:52 UTC
Source: https://github.com/ropensci/ReLTER

Help Index

Construct full url for download

Description

[Stable] Construct full URL, including replacing year and month where required.

Usage

EDC_construct_full_url(edc_row, dataset_year, dataset_month)

Arguments

edc_row

vector one row for chosen dataset from edc_df.
dataset_year

string Chosen year
dataset_month

string Chosen month

Author(s)

Micha Silver, phD (2020) [email protected]

eLTER Data Reporting Format (DRF)

Description

[Experimental] eLTER_data_reporting_format data is a nested list describing the field specifications used in the eLTER data reporting process. It includes two versions of the format: version 1.3 (used in eLTER-Plus) and version 2.0 (proposed update). Each version contains multiple components such as DATA, REFERENCE, METHOD, STATION, EVENT, and SAMPLE, which define the expected fields for each section.

Usage

data(eLTER_data_reporting_format)

Format

A named list with two main elements:

version1.3

Field names grouped by section as used in eLTER-Plus. Each section (e.g. DATA, METHOD, STATION) contains field names for core and extended data structures.

version2.0

Updated field names grouped by section, reflecting refinements in naming conventions and structure.

Source

eLTER-Plus field specification document: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6373410 Proposed updated format: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wTiwb_5uM_XGsrSWUx9h2t4maSSFg7mpggq2nIydWco

Obtain the information about of an eLTER activity.

Description

[Stable] This function obtains the information about of an eLTER activity (e.g. https://deims.org/activity/8786fc6d-5d70-495c-b901-42f480182845) provided in DEIMS-SDR catalogue.

Usage

get_activity_info(activityid, show_map = FALSE)

Arguments

activityid

A character. It is the DEIMS ID of activity make from DEIMS-SDR website. DEIMS ID information here. The DEIMS.iD of activity is the URL for the activity page.
show_map

A boolean. If TRUE a Leaflet map with occurrences is shown. Default FALSE.

Value

The output of the function is a list with two elements:

  • map A Leaflet map with the activity location, if requested with show_map.

  • data A data.frame with the information about the activity.

The function output