The code below gives an example on how to use the R package provided with the database, and how to use it for queries.

Install package and load the database into an R session

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github('SoilBGC-Datashare/sidb/Rpkg')

Once the package is installed we need to loaded with the command

library(sidb)

Now we can load all database entries into an R session

allentries=loadEntries(path="~/sidb/data/")

Now, all database entries are available in one single object: loadentries. It is an R list that can be queried using standard R sintax. In particular, the R functions lapply or sapply can be used to extract information from the entries.