rgbif (version 0.4.0)

rgbif: rgbif: A programmatic interface to the Web Service methods provided by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Description

rgbif: A programmatic interface to the Web Service methods provided by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

About

This package gives you access to data from GBIF http://www.gbif.org/ via their API.

Transitioning to the new GBIF API

Note that development is rapid at this point so expect changes, but changes should slow down with time...

The old GBIF API

• See documentation herehttp://data.gbif.org/tutorial/services

The new GBIF API

• See documentation here:http://www.gbif.org/developer/summary

The functions for the old GBIF API give deprecation messages, signaling that they are on their way out. A future version of rgbif will remove functions for the old API, so do transition to the functions for the new API soon.

The new GBIF API only uses JSON as a data format - no more XML. Of course this probably doesn't matter to you unless you are a hacker...

Function changes

Changes in the new GBIF API from last with respect to rgbif, the first column giving the function name, the second column giving the state of the function in the new package version, and any reasoning in the third column.

lll{ country_codes same none density_spplist deprecated service no longer provided densitylist deprecated service not provided anymore gbifdata deprecated not needed gbifmap_dens deprecated none gbifmap_list deprecated none is.gbifdens deprecated none is.gbiflist deprecated none networks same some parameters differ occurrencecount occ_count some parameters differ occurrencedensity deprecated service not provided anymore occurrenceget occ_get none occurrencelist occ_search none occurrencelist_all occ_search none occurrencelist_many occ_search none providers deprecated see note 1 resources deprecated see note 1 stylegeojson same not implemented yet taxoncount deprecated See ?occ_count taxonget deprecated See ?name_lookup taxonsearch deprecated See note 2 taxrank same none togeojson same not implemented yet }

Note 1: See datasets, networks, nodes, and organizations

Note 2: See name_lookup for names across all of GBIF and name_backbone for names only in the GBIF backbone taxonomy.