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>).

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.

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

Citation File Format ('CFF') version 1.2.0 is a human- and machine-readable file format for software citation metadata. Core utilities generate, read, write and validate Citation File Format metadata for R packages.

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.

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.'

Parse Scientific Names

Parse scientific names using 'gnparser' (< https://github.com/gnames/gnparser>), written in Go. 'gnparser' parses scientific names into their component parts; it utilizes a Parsing Expression Grammar specifically for scientific names.

A High-Performance Local Taxonomic Database Interface

Creates a local database of many commonly used taxonomic authorities and provides functions that can quickly query this data.

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.