r-rgbif
Interface to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility API
Science Score: 46.0%
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Repository
Interface to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility API
Basic Info
- Host: GitHub
- Owner: ropensci
- License: other
- Language: R
- Default Branch: master
- Homepage: https://docs.ropensci.org/rgbif
- Size: 154 MB
Statistics
- Stars: 169
- Watchers: 18
- Forks: 51
- Open Issues: 42
- Releases: 53
Topics
Metadata Files
README.md
rgbif 
rgbif is an R package which gives you access to GBIF mediated data via its REST API.
GBIF (the Global Biodiversity Information Facility) is an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth.
Installation
r
install.packages("rgbif") # CRAN version
r
pak::pkg_install("ropensci/rgbif") # dev version
r
install.packages("rgbif", repos="https://dev.ropensci.org") # dev version
Getting Started
There are several long-form articles that can help get you started:
Most GBIF users are interested in getting lat-lon occurrence records.
r
occ_search(scientificName = "Pan troglodytes")
occ_data(scientificName = "Pan troglodytes")
It is usually better to get occurrence records using a taxonKey. See the article Working With Taxonomic Names.
r
taxonKey <- name_backbone("Pan troglodytes")$usageKey
occ_search(taxonKey = taxonKey)
GBIF strongly recommends the use of occ_download() rather than occ_search() for serious research projects. See article Getting Occurrence Data From GBIF.
It is required to set up your GBIF credentials to make downloads from GBIF.
r
occ_download(pred("taxonKey", 5219534)) # 5219534 is the taxonKey for Pan troglodytes
Citation
Under the terms of the GBIF data user agreement, users who download data agree to cite a DOI. Please see GBIF’s citation guidelines and Citing GBIF Mediated Data.
Please also cite rgbif by running citation(package = "rgbif").
Contributors
This list honors all contributors in alphabetical order. Code contributors are in bold.
adamdsmith - AgustinCamacho - AldoCompagnoni - AlexPeap - andzandz11 - AshleyWoods - AugustT - barthoekstra - benmarwick - cathynewman - cboettig - coyotree - damianooldoni - dandaman - djokester - dlebauer - dmcglinn - dmi3kno - dnoesgaard - DupontCai - ecology-data-science - EDiLD - elgabbas - emhart - fxi - ghost - gkburada - hadley - Huasheng12306 - ibartomeus - JanLauGe - jarioksa - jeroen - jhnwllr - jhpoelen - jivelasquezt - jkmccarthy - johnbaums - jtgiermakowski - jwhalennds - karthik - kgturner - Kim1801 - ljuliusson - ljvillanueva - luisDVA - martinpfannkuchen - MattBlissett - MattOates - maxhenschell - mdsumner - no-la-ngo - Octoberweather - omahs - Pakillo - peterdesmet - PhillRob - PietrH - poldham - qgroom - raymondben - rossmounce - sacrevert - sagitaninta - sckott - scottsfarley93 - simon-tarr - SriramRamesh - stevenpbachman - stevensotelo - stevenysw - TomaszSuchan - tphilippi - vandit15 - vervis - vijaybarve - willgearty - Xuletajr - yvanlebras - zixuan75
Meta
- Please report any issues or bugs.
- License: MIT
- Get citation information for
rgbifin R doingcitation(package = 'rgbif') - Please note that this package is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.
There are similar GBIF clients in other languages :
This package is part of spocc, along with several other packages, that provide access to occurrence records from multiple data sources.
Owner
- Name: rOpenSci
- Login: ropensci
- Kind: organization
- Email: info@ropensci.org
- Location: Berkeley, CA
- Website: https://ropensci.org/
- Twitter: rOpenSci
- Repositories: 307
- Profile: https://github.com/ropensci
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| John Waller | f****2@k****k | 234 |
| John Waller | f****2@s****n | 153 |
| damianooldoni | d****i@i****e | 138 |
| John Waller | j****r@g****m | 34 |
| Laurens Geffert | l****t@g****m | 32 |
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Issues and Pull Requests
Last synced: 6 months ago
All Time
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- Total pull requests: 196
- Average time to close issues: 2 months
- Average time to close pull requests: 4 days
- Total issue authors: 158
- Total pull request authors: 21
- Average comments per issue: 2.29
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- Average time to close issues: 22 days
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- Issue authors: 15
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(may contain duplicates) - Total versions: 73
proxy.golang.org: github.com/ropensci/rgbif
- Documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ropensci/rgbif#section-documentation
- License: other
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Latest release: v3.8.3+incompatible
published 6 months ago
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conda-forge.org: r-rgbif
- Homepage: https://github.com/ropensci/rgbif, https://ropensci.github.io/rgbif, https://ropensci.github.io/occurrence-manual
- License: MIT
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