Automated Cleaning of Fossil Occurrence Data

Functions to automate the detection and resolution of taxonomic and stratigraphic errors in fossil occurrence datasets. Functions were developed using data from the Paleobiology Database.


fossilbrush authors: Joe Flannery Sutherland, Nussaïbah Raja-Schoob, Adam Kocsis Package for automated cleaning of fossil occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database

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install.packages("fossilbrush")

1.0.6 by Joe Flannery-Sutherland, a year ago


https://cran.r-project.org/package=fossilbrush


Report a bug at https://cran.r-project.org/package=fossilbrush


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/fossilbrush


Authors: Joe Flannery-Sutherland [aut, cre] (ORCID: , Nussaïbah Raja-Schoob [aut, ctb] , Ádam Kocsis [aut, ctb] , Wolfgang Kiessling [aut]


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


GPL (>= 3) license


Imports igraph, curl, data.table, pbapply, stringdist, stringr, Matrix, methods

Suggests rmarkdown, knitr


See at CRAN