Interface to the 'Biodiversity' 'Heritage' Library

Interface to 'Biodiversity' 'Heritage' Library ('BHL') (< https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/>) API (< https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/docs/api3.html>). 'BHL' is a repository of 'digitized' literature on 'biodiversity' studies, including 'floras', research papers, and more.

'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.

'Bielefeld' Academic Search Engine ('BASE') Client

Interface to the API for the 'Bielefeld' Academic Search Engine ('BASE') (< https://www.base-search.net/>). 'BASE' is a search engine for more than 150 million scholarly documents from more than 7000 sources. Methods are provided for searching for documents, as well as getting information on higher level groupings of documents: collections and repositories within collections. Search includes faceting, so you can get a high level overview of number of documents across a given variable (e.g., year). 'BASE' asks users to respect a rate limit, but does not enforce it themselves; we enforce that rate limit.

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.

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/>).

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.

A Grammar of Data Manipulation

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

Interface to Bold Systems API

A programmatic interface to the Web Service methods provided by Bold Systems (< http://www.boldsystems.org/>) for genetic 'barcode' data. Functions include methods for searching by sequences by taxonomic names, ids, collectors, and institutions; as well as a function for searching for specimens, and downloading trace files.