Error downloading "global" data with wdpa_fetch

[jaseeverett]

Error downloading "global" data with wdpa_fetch

[jeffreyhanson]

Hi @jaseeverett,

Thank you very much for reporting this! I'll look into it and try and get back to you later today.

[jeffreyhanson]

Hmm, it seems to work on my computer (Ubuntu). I assume this on your M1 Mac? Internally, wdpar uses the curl package to handle downloads - could you try updating that and see if it works? If not, we could try and debug this togeather over zoom/teams?

[jeffreyhanson]

Also, it might be possible that there was previously an issue when downloading the global dataset into the rappdirs::user_data_dir("wdpar") folder, so it's now failing when trying to import this cached data. So, maybe try deleting the global wdpar dataset from this folder and try running it again (so as to force wdpar to download the dataset again from Protected Planet)? Could you try running this code so that force wdpar is forced to re-download the data before trying to import it?

wdpa_data <- wdpar::wdpa_fetch("global", wait = TRUE, download_dir = rappdirs::user_data_dir("wdpar"), force_download = TRUE)

[jaseeverett]

Thanks @jeffreyhanson . No there isn't an issue with the cache. I tried it with new cache names, and also no cache and get the same issue.
I just spoke to my student who reported it and he is using a 2018 MB Air. So possible a Mac issue, but not specific to the new Macs.

[jaseeverett]

I'll have a look at debugging it myself and get back to you. Stand by

[jeffreyhanson]

Just to follow up, were you able to debug the issue?

[jaseeverett]

Hey @jeffreyhanson . Yes I think I have but I'm just getting a student to test it on their computer to see if it works for them. Will get back to you shortly.

[jaseeverett]

#81 should solve this