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.

This should automatically install the package from a CRAN mirror if you have one configured:

install.packages("ridigbio")

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")

Basic usage

library("ridigbio")
idig_search_records(rq=list(genus="acer"))
idig_search_records(rq=list(family="holothuriidae"), limit=1000)

Complete list of terms that can be used is available here

License

MIT