Interface to the iDigBio Data API

An interface to iDigBio's search API that allows downloading specimen records. Searches are returned as a data.frame. Other functions such as the metadata end points return lists of information. iDigBio is a US project focused on digitizing and serving museum specimen collections on the web. See < https://www.idigbio.org> for information on iDigBio.

ridigbio

ridigbio is an R package to access iDigBio (Integrated Digitized Biocollections).

Installation

ridigbio is avaliable via CRAN.

install.packages("ridigbio")

Error Messages

If R says the package is unavailable, you may not have set a CRAN mirror. You can do so with:

chooseCRANmirror()

If R says that a binary package is not available, your version of R may be too old. Please review the versions of R that CRAN has built packages for on the CRAN ridigbio package page.

You can download the source package and install manually if there is no package built for your version of R. You may also need to install any dependencies.

install.packages("ridigbio", type="source")

On Linux, you may encounter an error during the installation process if you do not have libcurl installed. The method for installing libcurl will vary between distributions, but on Ubuntu you can install the latest version via:

sudo apt install libcurl4

Getting Started

There are several articles that can help get you started:

• Introduction to ridigbio
• Record API Demo
• Media API Demo
• Fields in ridigibio
• Tissue Samples Locator Demo
• Identification of Modified Data
• Identification of Suspicious Coordinates
• Identification of Data Flags

Most iDigBio users are interested in downloading occurrence records:

library("ridigbio")
idig_search_records(rq=list(genus="galax"))
idig_search_records(rq=list(family="diapensiaceae"), limit=1000)

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• License: MIT