[R-sig-Geo] WorldClim Version2

[Andy Bunn]

Wonderful. Thanks.

On 10/11/17, 10:31 AM, "Alex Mandel" <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:

    It uses WorldClim 1.4
    
    The paper for WorldClim 2 was recently published and we are still
    working on adding more additional variables and refinements. I expect
    the getData function to be updated in the near future.
    
    Thanks,
    Alex
    
    On 09/28/2017 12:44 AM, Marcelino de la Cruz Rot wrote:
    > I'm afraid it don't.
    > 
    > At least in version 2.5.8, as it  appears from  this line in .wordclim():
    > 
    >  theurl <-
    > paste("http://biogeo.ucdavis.edu/data/climate/worldclim/1_4/grid/cur/",
    >             zip, sep = "")
    > 
    > Marcelino
    > 
    > 
    > El 28/09/2017 a las 4:31, Bacou, Melanie escribió:
    >>
    >> I would assume `raster::getData("worldclim", ...)` uses WorldClim
    >> version 2?
    >>
    >> --Mel.
    >>
    >>
    >> On 09/25/2017 05:14 PM, Andy Bunn wrote:
    >>> Great. Thanks Marcelino. I have all the data dowloaded. I'm surprised
    >>> that
    >>> there isn't a dedicated package for worldclim yet ‹ making one that ties
    >>> in with packages like BIEN would be great. Perhaps I'll work on it
    >>> someday.
    >>>
    >>> -A
    >>>
    >>> On 9/25/17, 11:32 AM, "Marcelino de la Cruz Rot"
    >>> <marcelino.delacruz at urjc.es>  wrote:
    >>>
    >>>> Hello Andy,
    >>>>
    >>>> I've been using raster to play with WordlClim 2.0 and it works fine.
    >>>> For
    >>>> example:
    >>>>
    >>>> # Download 2.5' arc P data of worldclim 2.0
    >>>> # The file is 68.5 MB so it takes some time to download
    >>>> P_url<-
    >>>> "http://biogeo.ucdavis.edu/data/worldclim/v2.0/tif/base/wc2.0_2.5m_prec.zi
    >>>> p"
    >>>> download.file(P_url, destfile="wc2.0_2.5m_prec.zip")
    >>>> unzip("wc2.0_2.5m_prec.zip")
    >>>>
    >>>> #  Generate a stack object  with all monthly precipitation layers
    >>>> P_filenames<- paste("wc2.0_2.5m_prec_", c(paste(0,1:9, sep=""), 11,12),
    >>>> ".tif",sep="")
    >>>>
    >>>> prec2.5<- stack(P_filenames)
    >>>>
    >>>> # Compute annual precipitation as a raster layer
    >>>> P2.5<- sum(prec2.5)
    >>>>
    >>>> # etc.
    >>>>
    >>>> Cheers,
    >>>>
    >>>> Marcelino
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>> El 25/09/2017 a las 19:42, Andy Bunn escribió:
    >>>>> Hello all, is anybody aware of a R package that gracefully works with
    >>>>> version 2 of the WorldClim data?
    >>>>>
    >>>>> http://worldclim.org/version2
    >>>>>
    >>>>>
    >>>>> I have all the data extracted locally but I'm wondering if there is
    >>>>> something akin to getData in raster that will work with version 2 and
    >>>>> not
    >>>>> 1.4 as (the brilliant) raster package currently does.
    >>>>>
    >>>>> Many thanks, Andy
    >>>>>
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    >>>> -- 
    >>>> Marcelino de la Cruz Rot
    >>>> Depto. de Biología y Geología
    >>>> Física y Química Inorgánica
    >>>> Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
    >>>> Móstoles España
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