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>).

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.

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.

General Purpose 'GraphQL' Client

A 'GraphQL' client, with an R6 interface for initializing a connection to a 'GraphQL' instance, and methods for constructing queries, including fragments and parameterized queries. Queries are checked with the 'libgraphqlparser' C++ parser via the 'graphql' package.

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.'

Database Interface to 'Elasticsearch' and 'OpenSearch'

Connect to 'Elasticsearch' and 'OpenSearch', 'NoSQL' databases built on the 'Java' Virtual Machine and using the 'Apache' 'Lucene' library. Interacts with the 'Elasticsearch' 'HTTP' API' (< https://www.elastic.co/elasticsearch/>) and the 'OpenSearch' 'HTTP' 'API' (< https://opensearch.org/>). Includes functions for setting connection details to 'Elasticsearch' and 'OpenSearch' instances, loading bulk data, searching for documents with both 'HTTP' query variables and 'JSON' based body requests. In addition, 'elastic' provides functions for interacting with APIs for 'indices', documents, nodes, clusters, an interface to the cat API, and more.

A Grammar of Data Manipulation

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

Client for the 'Pangaea' Database

Tools to interact with the 'Pangaea' Database (< https://www.pangaea.de>), including functions for searching for data, fetching 'datasets' by 'dataset' 'ID', and working with the 'Pangaea' 'OAI-PMH' service.

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'.