To what does the geodeticDatum (occurrences) field relate? about ala4r HOT 5 CLOSED

This relates to the underlying ALA service that delivers the data - ALA4R just wraps that service. I've asked the ALA devs for comment, will report here.

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Nice package. Over the last 24 hours the occurrences function is producing errors that I haven't seen previously. Any ideas? e.g.

x=occurrences(taxon="penguins", download_reason_id=10)
Error in read.table(unz(thisfile, filename = "data.csv"), header = TRUE, :
no lines available in input

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@WCSPNG - I created a new issue for your comment, see #8

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Back to the geodeticDatum question. From the ALA devs:

"Generally it appears to operate like this:

1. if datum is not supplied then set assertion geodeticDatumAssumedWgs84 and use raw lat lon and wgs84 as the processed location
2. else if datum is not recognised then set assertion unrecognizedGeodeticDatum and use raw lat lon and raw datum as the processed location
3. else if lat lon transformation to wgs84 is not successful then set assertion decimalLatLongConversionFailed and use transformed lat lon and wgs84 as the processed location

Your example http://biocache.ala.org.au/ws/occurrence/5400e754-d39c-4814-82ca-2f29b40fb3e2 is (2). The processed location is using the unrecognised datum.

If supplying a valid raw datum the raw location and processed location datums do vary http://sandbox.ala.org.au/ws/occurrences/8580591d-80ba-44c9-9572-96a3d292581e"

I'll close the issue here. If more info is needed, suggest raising an issue on the repo that provides the underlying service: https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/biocache-service

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Thank very much Ben.

The occurrence function started functioning normally again about 24
hours after I posted on GitHub. I now suspect that a rogue .Rprofile
file might have been interferring with the downloads (oddly "search
_fulltext" was working but not "occurrences") . Apologies for bothering you.

Wonderful package - so useful. I've stuck a RMarkdown doc on Rpubs to
showcase the package at a very basic level.

Cheers,
Nathan

On 23/04/2015 5:00 PM, Ben Raymond wrote:

@WCSPNG https://github.com/WCSPNG - I created a new issue for your
comment, see #8 #8

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