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rgbif (version 0.6.0)

Interface to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility API

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

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Scott Chamberlain

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Functions in rgbif (0.6.0)

blanktheme

Custom ggplot2 theme
check_wkt

Check input WKT
occurrencecount

Counts taxon concept records matching a range of filters.
nodes

Nodes metadata.
dataset_metrics

Geta details on a dataset.
organizations

Organizations metadata.
datasets

Search for datasets and dataset metadata.
occ_metadata

Search for catalog numbers, collection codes, collector names, and institution codes.
gbifmap

Make a map to visualize GBIF occurrence data.
name_backbone

Lookup names in the GBIF backbone taxonomy.
gbifparser_verbatim

Parser for gbif data
providers

Get data providers and their unique keys.
togeojson

Convert spatial data files to GeoJSON from various formats.
suggestfields

Fields available in gbif_suggest function
gbifdata

Get data.frame from occurrencelist, occurrencelist_many, or densitylist.
occ_get

Get data for specific GBIF occurrences.
dataset_search

Search datasets in GBIF.
installations

Installations metadata.
gbifmap_dens

Make a simple map to visualize GBIF data density data
is.gbifdens

Check if object is of class gbifdens
datasetparser

Parser for gbif data
occurrencedensity

Returns summary counts of occurrence records by one-degree cell for a single taxon, country, dataset, data publisher or data network.
occ_search

Search for GBIF occurrences.
parseresults

Parse results from call to occurrencelist endpoint
stylegeojson

Style a data.frame prior to converting to geojson.
densitylist

The density web service provides access to records showing the density of occurrence records from the GBIF Network by one-degree cell.
taxrank

Get the possible values to be used for (taxonomic) rank arguments in GBIF API methods.
gist

Post a file as a Github gist
namelkupparser

Parser for name_usage endpoints, for fxns name_lookup and name_backbone
rgb_country_codes

Look up 2 character ISO country codes
print.gbiflist_na

Print summary of gbiflist_na class
print.gbiflist

Print summary of gbiflist class
occurrenceget

Get individual records for a given occurrence record.
get_credentials

Get Github credentials from use in console
typestatus

Type status options for GBIF searching
create_gist

Function that takes a list of files and creates payload for API
occurrencelist

Occurrencelist searches for taxon concept records matching a range of filters.
density_spplist

The density web service provides access to records showing the density of occurrence records from the GBIF Network by one-degree cell.
taxonsearch

Search for taxa in GBIF.
gbifmap_list

Make a simple map to visualize GBIF point data.
is.gbiflist_na

Check if object is of class gbiflist_na
ldfast

Replacement function for ldply that should be faster.
elevation

Get elevation for lat/long points from a data.frame or list of points.
rgbif-deprecated

Deprecated functions in rgbif
dataset_suggest

Suggest datasets in GBIF.
resources

Get data resources and their unique keys.
gbifxmlToDataFrame

Code based on the `gbifxmlToDataFrame` function from dismo package (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dismo/index.html), by Robert Hijmans, 2012-05-31, License: GPL v3
name_lookup

Lookup names in all taxonomies in GBIF.
occurrencelist_all

Occurrencelist_all carries out an occurrencelist query for a single name and all its name variants according to GBIF's name matching.
networks

Networks metadata.
occ_count

Get number of occurrence records.
name_suggest

A quick and simple autocomplete service that returns up to 20 name usages by doing prefix matching against the scientific name. Results are ordered by relevance.
count_facet

Facetted count occurrence search.
taxoncount

Search by taxon to retrieve number of records in GBIF.
parsenames

Parse taxon names using the GBIF name parser.
occurrencelist_many

occurrencelist_many is the same as occurrencelist, but takes in a vector of species names.
commas_to_periods

Convert commas to periods in lat/long data
print.gbifdens

Print summary of gbifdens class
name_usage

Lookup details for specific names in all taxonomies in GBIF.
gbif_capwords

Capitalize the first letter of a character string.
gbifparser

Parser for gbif data
taxonget

Get taxonomic information on a specific taxon or taxa in GBIF by their taxon concept keys.
rgbif

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

Table of country two character ISO codes, and GBIF names
is.gbiflist

Check if object is of class gbiflist