Read in Data from a CSV or XLSX File — get

This function reads in data from a CSV or XLSX file. The file must contain a "Species" column. You can optionally apply a filter expression to the dataset before returning it. The function returns a data.frame with the filtered results for further processing in the pipeline.

Usage

get_data(file, filter = NULL)

Arguments

file: A string specifying the path to the CSV or XLSX file to read. The file must contain a "Species" column.
filter: An optional expression used to filter the resulting data.frame. This should be an expression written as if you were using dplyr::filter(). The default is NULL, meaning no filtering is applied.

Value

A data.frame containing the data read from the file, optionally filtered.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Read in data without filtering
f <- system.file("ex/Species_List.csv", package="SpeciesPoolR")
data <- get_data(f)

# Read in data and filter for Plantae kingdom and certain taxon ranges
filtered_data <- get_data(
  file = f,
  filter = quote(
   Kingdom == "Plantae" &
   Class == "Magnoliopsida"
  )
)
} # }