Pacea R package: Most efficient way to extract coastwide indices

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Approach 1: Install package, then access data objects and create csv

• Status: Works (this script)

• Pro: get all data objects at once, any new additions are automatically included

• Con: need to remember check install date (with pacea_installed()) against latest NEWS and repo network plot, or just run install.packages() every time

Approach 2: Download the .rda files from the pacea/data folder, then load into R from there.

• Status: haven't tried yet

• Pro: always gets you the latest version of the data

• Con: fully automating this may be tricky, given discussions here, here, here, and here)

Approach 3: Put in a request for csv files for the Annual and monthly indices, then just work from that.

Status: will do once the pacea entry of PSEC has evolved a bit more. For now these csv files are generated in PSEC using Approach 1 above. The csv outputs are in the PACEA folder

Pro: would expand the potential user base of a key part of pacea to people not familiar/comfortable with R.