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rWCVP

rWCVP is a package for accessing and using plant name and distribution data from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Installation

You can install the development version of rWCVP from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
devtools::install_github("matildabrown/rWCVP")

Example

rWCVP makes it easy to get and plot the known distribution of plant species.

library(rWCVP)

distribution <- wcvp_distribution("Myrcia guianensis", taxon_rank="species")

# global map
wcvp_distribution_map(distribution)

# zoomed-in map
wcvp_distribution_map(distribution, crop_map=TRUE)

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Install

install.packages('rWCVP')

Monthly Downloads

47

Version

1.2.4

License

GPL (>= 3)

Issues

8

Pull Requests

0

Stars

23

Forks

3

Maintainer

Matilda Brown

Last Published

February 16th, 2023

Functions in rWCVP (1.2.4)

get_wgsrpd3_codes

Extract WGSRPD Level 3 (area) codes.
get_area_name

Get area description from vector of area codes
wcvp_summary_gt

Render a summary table from wcvp_summary
wcvp_reformat

Reformat local versions of WCVP
wcvp_summary

Generate a summary table from the WCVP
wgsrpd_mapping

Data for mapping WGSRPD geography to other levels
wcvp_occ_mat

Generate occurrence matrix for taxa and areas
wcvp_match_names

Match names to the WCVP.
wgsrpd3

Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD)
wcvp_match_fuzzy

Fuzzy (approximate) matching to the WCVP.
wcvp_match_exact

Exact matching to WCVP.
powo_pal

POWO colour palette for range maps
taxonomic_mapping

Data for mapping plant family to order or higher classification
wcvp_checklist

Generate a species checklist from WCVP
powo_map

Plot a POWO style map for given range and range centroids.
wcvp_distribution_map

Plot distribution maps for species, genera or families
wcvp_distribution

Generate spatial distribution objects for species, genera or families
redlist_example

Example dataset for name matching
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