Bibtex Parser

Utility to parse a bibtex file.

Generate Citation File Format ('cff') Metadata for R Packages

The Citation File Format version 1.2.0 is a human and machine readable file format which provides citation metadata for software. This package provides core utilities to generate and validate this metadata.

R Interface to 'FishBase'

A programmatic interface to 'FishBase', re-written based on an accompanying 'RESTful' API. Access tables describing over 30,000 species of fish, their biology, ecology, morphology, and more. This package also supports experimental access to 'SeaLifeBase' data, which contains nearly 200,000 species records for all types of aquatic life not covered by 'FishBase.'

Integrated Taxonomic Information System Client

An interface to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System ('ITIS') (< https://www.itis.gov>). Includes functions to work with the 'ITIS' REST API methods (< https://www.itis.gov/ws_description.html>), as well as the 'Solr' web service (< https://www.itis.gov/solr_documentation.html>).

Interface to Species Occurrence Data Sources

A programmatic interface to many species occurrence data sources, including Global Biodiversity Information Facility ('GBIF'), 'iNaturalist', 'eBird', Integrated Digitized 'Biocollections' ('iDigBio'), 'VertNet', Ocean 'Biogeographic' Information System ('OBIS'), and Atlas of Living Australia ('ALA'). Includes functionality for retrieving species occurrence data, and combining those data.

Client for the Open Citations Corpus

Client for the Open Citations Corpus (< http://opencitations.net/>). Includes a set of functions for getting one identifier type from another, as well as getting references and citations for a given identifier.

Parse Darwin Core Files

Parse and create Darwin Core (< http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/>) Simple and Archives. Functionality includes reading and parsing all the files in a Darwin Core Archive, including the datasets and metadata; read and parse simple Darwin Core files; and validation of Darwin Core Archives.

Client for 'Citoid'

Client for 'Citoid' (< https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid>), an API for getting citations for various scholarly work identifiers found on 'Wikipedia'.

Visualize Species Occurrence Data

Utilities for visualizing species occurrence data. Includes functions to visualize occurrence data from 'spocc', 'rgbif', and other packages. Mapping options included for base R plots, 'ggplot2', 'leaflet' and 'GitHub' 'gists'.

A Grammar of Data Manipulation

A fast, consistent tool for working with data frame like objects, both in memory and out of memory.