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Download and unzip NIFC wildfire data

Source: R/get_nifc.R
get_nifc.Rd

Downloads the NIFC (National Interagency Fire Center) wildfire perimeters dataset from figshare and unzips it to a local directory. If the ZIP already exists and overwrite = FALSE, no network call is made.

Usage

get_nifc(
  directory = getwd(),
  overwrite = FALSE,
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

directory

character(1) directory where the ZIP file and unzipped contents are stored. Defaults to the current working directory.

overwrite

logical(1) re-download when TRUE; defaults to FALSE.

verbose

logical(1) print progress messages.

Value

character(1) path to the downloaded ZIP file (invisibly).

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
zip_path <- get_nifc()
zip_path <- get_nifc(directory = "data/nifc")
} # }