Get ABARES' Topsoil Thickness for "Australian Areas of Intensive Agriculture of Layer 1"

Fetches topsoil thickness data and associated metadata from ABARES.

Usage

.get_topsoil_thickness(.x)

Source

https://catalog.anrdl.cp1.agriculture.gov.au/warehouse/staiar9cl__059/staiar9cl__05911a01eg_geo___.zip

Arguments

.x

Optional path to a local copy of the zipped data file. If it is NULL a copy is downloaded from the ABARES website.

Value

A read.abares.topsoil.thickness object, which is a named list() with the terra::rast() object of the data and text file of metadata.

Details

A custom print() method is provided that will print the metadata associated with these data. Examples are provided for interacting with the metadata directly.

References

https://data.agriculture.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/faa9f157-8e17-4b23-b6a7-37eb7920ead6.

Examples

x <- .get_topsoil_thickness(.x = NULL)
#> Error in .get_topsoil_thickness(.x = NULL): could not find function ".get_topsoil_thickness"

x
#> Error: object 'x' not found

# Extract the metadata as an object in your R session and use it with
# {pander}, useful for Markdown files

library(pander)
y <- x$metadata
#> Error: object 'x' not found
pander(y)
#> Error: object 'y' not found