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An R script to download data files from the LEDA trait database
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| # load packages | |
| library(rvest) | |
| library(here) | |
| # create a new forder for storing data | |
| folder_name <- here(paste0("leda_", lubridate::today())) | |
| dir.create(folder_name) | |
| # extract URLs and download files | |
| read_html("https://uol.de/en/landeco/research/leda/data-files") %>% | |
| html_elements(xpath = "//a/@href") %>% | |
| html_text() %>% | |
| grep("Data_files", ., value = TRUE) %>% | |
| lapply(., function(x) download.file(x, here(folder_name, stringr::str_extract(x, "\\/([^/]*)$")))) |
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