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 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.

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'.

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'.

Get Landsat 8 Data from Amazon Public Data Sets

Get Landsat 8 Data from Amazon Web Services ('AWS') public data sets (< https://registry.opendata.aws/landsat-8/>). Includes functions for listing images and fetching them, and handles caching to prevent unnecessary additional requests.

'ZooBank' API Client

Interface to the 'ZooBank' API (< http://zoobank.org/Api>) client. 'ZooBank' (< http://zoobank.org/>) is the official registry of zoological nomenclature. Methods are provided for using each of the API endpoints, including for querying by author, querying for publications, get statistics on 'ZooBank' activity, and more.

Parse 'NOAA' Integrated Surface Data Files

Tools for parsing 'NOAA' Integrated Surface Data ('ISD') files, described at < https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/isd>. Data includes for example, wind speed and direction, temperature, cloud data, sea level pressure, and more. Includes data from approximately 35,000 stations worldwide, though best coverage is in North America/Europe/Australia. Data is stored as variable length ASCII character strings, with most fields optional. Included are tools for parsing entire files, or individual lines of data.

Control How Many Times Conditions are Thrown

Provides ability to control how many times in function calls conditions are thrown (shown to the user). Includes control of warnings and messages.

Fetch 'Phylogenies' from Many Sources

Includes methods for fetching 'phylogenies' from a variety of sources, including the 'Phylomatic' web service (< http://phylodiversity.net/phylomatic/>), and 'Phylocom' (< https://github.com/phylocom/phylocom/>).