Can I pass NULL to auk_project?

[nmtarr]

Hello,

I would like to avoid using an if statement in the following lines of code from one of my scripts:

Condition next action on whether NCBA records only are desired.

if (NCBA_only == TRUE) {
sampling <- EBD_sampling %>%
auk_sampling() %>%
auk_project("EBIRD_ATL_NC") %>%
auk_filter(file = "TMP_EBD.txt", overwrite = TRUE) %>%
read_sampling() %>%
data.frame()
} else {
sampling <- EBD_sampling %>%
auk_sampling() %>%
auk_filter(file = "TMP_EBD.txt", overwrite = TRUE) %>%
read_sampling() %>%
data.frame()
}

Is there a way that I can pass a null value to auk_project() so that I can do something like:

project <- NULL

Read in sampling data frame with auk

sampling <- EBD_sampling %>%
auk_sampling() %>%
auk_project(project = project) %>%
auk_filter(file = "TMP_EBD.txt", overwrite = TRUE) %>%
read_sampling() %>%
data.frame()

If I set project <- NULL in that case, the code won't run, but I would like for it to proceed anyways.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Nate

[mstrimas]

Hi Nate, that's not currently how the auk_*() functions work, they require a valid non-NULL input. In theory this could be added, but for consistency would have to be added to all the filtering functions, which I don't have the bandwidth for at the moment. I'll leave this open and consider adding the functionality in future if I have some free time. For now though, I think you're stuck using the if statement approach you have been using.

[nmtarr]

Thanks Matt. It would be a handy change but I can work around it in the meantime.