Get trait data from the database. — get.trait.data • PEcAn.DB

This will use the following items from settings: - `settings$pfts` - `settings$model$type` - `settings$database$bety` - `settings$database$dbfiles` - `settings$meta.analysis$update`

get.trait.data(
  pfts,
  modeltype,
  dbfiles,
  database,
  forceupdate,
  write = FALSE,
  trait.names = NULL
)

Arguments

pfts: the list of pfts to get traits for
modeltype: type of model that is used, this is is used to distinguish between different PFTs with the same name.
dbfiles: location where previous results are found
database: database connection parameters (see `params` argument to [db.query()])
forceupdate: (Logical) If `TRUE`, force a database update whether or not it is needed. If `FALSE`, only update if an update is needed.
write: (Logical) If `TRUE` updated posteriors will be written to BETYdb. Defaults to FALSE.
trait.names: Character vector of trait names to search. If `NULL` (default), use all traits that have a prior for at least one of the `pfts`.

Value

list of PFTs with update posteriorids

Author

David LeBauer, Shawn Serbin, Alexey Shiklomanov