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Make Ecological Dynamics Interpretive Tool (EDIT) web services URL

Source: R/fetchEDIT_tools.R
make_EDIT_service_URL.Rd

Construct a URL for Ecological Dynamics Interpretive Tool (EDIT) web services (https://edit.jornada.nmsu.edu/services/...) to return PDF, TXT or JSON results.

Usage

make_EDIT_service_URL(
  src = c("descriptions", "downloads", "plant-community-tables", "models", "keys"),
  catalog = c("esd", "esg"),
  geoUnit = NULL,
  ecoclass = NULL,
  landuse = NULL,
  state = NULL,
  community = NULL,
  key = NULL,
  endpoint = NULL,
  querystring = NULL
)

Arguments

src

One of: descriptions, downloads, plant-community-tables, models, keys

catalog

Catalog ID. One of: esd or esg

geoUnit

Geographic unit ID. For example: 022A

ecoclass

Ecological class ID. For example: F022AX101CA

landuse

Optional: Used only for src = "plant-community-tables"

state

Optional: Used only for src = "plant-community-tables"

community

Optional: Used only for src = "plant-community-tables"

key

Optional: Key number. All keys will be returned if not specified.

endpoint

Optional: Specific endpoint e.g. overview.json, class-list.json, soil-features.json

querystring

Optional: Additional request parameters specified as a query string ?param1=value&param2=value.

Value

A character vector containing URLs with specified parameters. This function is vectorized.

Details

See the following official EDIT developer resources to see which endpoints are available for Ecological Site Description (ESD) or Ecological Site Group (ESG) catalogs:

See also

get_EDIT_ecoclass_by_geoUnit

Examples

# url for all geoUnit keys as PDF
make_EDIT_service_URL(src = "descriptions",
                      catalog = "esd",
                      geoUnit = "039X")
#> [1] "https://edit.jornada.nmsu.edu/services/descriptions/esd/039X.pdf"

# url for a single key within geoUnit as PDF
make_EDIT_service_URL(src = "descriptions",
                      catalog = "esd",
                      geoUnit = "039X",
                      key = "1")
#> [1] "https://edit.jornada.nmsu.edu/services/descriptions/esd/039X/1.pdf"

# query for "full" description in JSON
desc <-  make_EDIT_service_URL(src = "descriptions",
                               catalog = "esd",
                               geoUnit = "039X",
                               endpoint = "R039XA109AZ.json")

# query for "overview"
desc_ov <- make_EDIT_service_URL(src = "descriptions",
                                 catalog = "esd",
                                 geoUnit = "039X",
                                 ecoclass = "R039XA109AZ",
                                 endpoint = "overview.json")

# query for specific section, e.g. "water features"
desc_wf <- make_EDIT_service_URL(src = "descriptions",
                                 catalog = "esd",
                                 geoUnit = "039X",
                                 ecoclass = "R039XA109AZ",
                                 endpoint = "water-features.json")

# construct the URLs -- that is a query essentially
# then download the result with read_json

#full <- jsonlite::read_json(desc)
#overview <- jsonlite::read_json(desc_ov)
#waterfeature <- jsonlite::read_json(desc_wf)