Load the local, minimally processed, raw, unstratified data.
The data must have been previously fetched using fetch_bbs_data(). This
function is provided for custom explorations and is not part of the analysis
workflow; stratify() will do the loading for you.
Arguments
- level
Character. Which type of BBS counts to use, "state" or "stop". Default "state".
- release
Numeric. Which yearly release to use, 2022 (including data through 2021 field season) or 2020 (including data through 2019). Default 2022.
- sample
Logical. Whether or not to use the sample data for Pacific Wrens (see ?bbs_data_sample). Default is
FALSE. IfTRUE,levelandreleaseare ignored.- quiet
Logical. Suppress progress messages? Default
FALSE.
Value
Large list (3 elements) consisting of:
- birds
Data frame of sample bird point count data per route, per year
- routes
Data frame of sample yearly route data
- species
Sample list of North American bird species
See also
Other BBS data functions:
fetch_bbs_data(),
have_bbs_data(),
remove_cache()