Download a taxify backbone

Downloads a pre-built .vtr backbone from Zenodo using the taxify manifest. Progress is always shown. No prompts are shown — calling this function is consent.

Usage

taxify_download_vtr(backend = "wfo", version = "latest", verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

backend

Character. One of "wfo", "col", "gbif", or "register". Multiple backends can be specified as a character vector.

version

Character. "latest" (default) downloads into <data_dir>/<backend>/latest/ and will be overwritten on future updates. A specific version string (e.g., "2024.01") downloads into a pinned folder that is never overwritten.

verbose

Logical. Default TRUE.

Value

The path(s) to the downloaded .vtr file(s) (invisibly).