Species Trait Data from Around the Web

Species trait data from many sources, including sequence data from NCBI (< https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/>), plant traits from BETYdb, and data from EOL Traitbank and BirdLife International.

traits: Species Trait Data from Around the Web

traits

R client for various sources of species trait data.

Docs: https://docs.ropensci.org/traits/

What is a trait? A “trait” for the purposes of this package is broadly defined as an aspect of a species that can be described or measured, such as physical traits (size, length, height, color), behavioral traits (running speed, etc.), and even variables that make up the niche of the species (e.g., habitat).

Included in traits with the associated function prefix or function name:

Talk to us on the issues page (https://github.com/ropensci/traits/issues) if you know of a source of traits data with an API, and we’ll see about including it.

Installation

CRAN

install.packages("traits")

R-Universe (alternative)

install.packages(
  "traits",
  repos = c("https://ropensci.r-universe.dev", "https://cloud.r-project.org")
)

Development version from GitHub

remotes::install_github("ropensci/traits")

library("traits")
library("dplyr")

Contributors

• Scott Chamberlain
• Zachary Foster
• Ignasi Bartomeus
• David LeBauer
• David Harris
• Chris Black
• Rupert Collins

Meta

• Please report any issues or bugs.
• License: MIT
• Get citation information for traits in R doing citation(package = 'traits')
• Please note that this package is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.