Convert Among Citation Formats

Converts among many citation formats, including 'BibTeX', 'Citeproc', 'Codemeta', 'RDF XML', 'RIS', 'Schema.org', and 'Citation File Format'. A low level 'R6' class is provided, as well as stand-alone functions for each citation format for both read and write.

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.

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.

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/>).

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.

'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.

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.

'NoSQL' Database Connector

Simplified JSON document database access and manipulation, providing a common API across supported 'NoSQL' databases 'Elasticsearch', 'CouchDB', 'MongoDB' as well as 'SQLite/JSON1', 'PostgreSQL', and 'DuckDB'.