BbsAssistant: An R package for downloading and handling data and information from the North American Breeding Bird Survey
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Abstract
This R package contains functions for downloading and munging data from the U.S. Geological Surveys North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) via file transfer protocol (FTP)
(Pardieck, Ziolkowski Jr, Lutmerding, & Hudson, 2018; J. R. Sauer et al., 2017). This package was created to allow the user to bulk-download the BBS point count and related (e.g.,
route-level conditions) via FTP, and to quickly subset the data by taxonomic classifications
and/or geographical locations. This package also maintains data containing the trend and
annual indices from the most recent (1996-2017) hierarchical population analyses (J. Sauer
et al., 2017).
Suggested Citation
Burnett, J.L., Wszola, L.S., Palomo-Munoz, G., 2019, BbsAssistant: An R package for downloading and handling data and information from the North American Breeding Bird Survey: Journal of Open Source Software, v. 4, no. 44, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01768.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | BbsAssistant: An R package for downloading and handling data and information from the North American Breeding Bird Survey |
| Series title | Journal of Open Source Software |
| DOI | 10.21105/joss.01768 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 44 |
| Year Published | 2019 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | JOSS |
| Contributing office(s) | Science Analytics and Synthesis |
| Description | 1768, 2 p. |
| First page | 1768 |