Load the currently active ontology

adb_ontology(..., type = "ontology")

Arguments

...

combination of column name in the ontology and value to filter that column by to build a tree of the concepts nested into it; see make_tree.

type

[character(1)]
the type of ontology to load, either "ontology" to get the thematic concepts, or "gazetteer" to get the territories.

Value

returns a tidy table of an ontology or gazetteer that is used in an areal database.