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rgbif (version 0.6.2)

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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Functions in rgbif (0.6.2)

gbifmap_list

Make a simple map to visualize GBIF point data.
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.
taxoncount

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

Parse taxon names using the GBIF name parser.
dataset_suggest

Suggest datasets in GBIF.
gbifdata

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

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

Print summary of gbiflist class
taxonget

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

Get elevation for lat/long points from a data.frame or list of points.
name_lookup

Lookup names in all taxonomies in GBIF.
occurrencedensity

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

Replacement function for ldply that should be faster.
occurrenceget

Get individual records for a given occurrence record.
density_spplist

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

Get Github credentials from use in console
gbif_capwords

Capitalize the first letter of a character string.
is.gbiflist_na

Check if object is of class gbiflist_na
gbifmap_dens

Make a simple map to visualize GBIF data density data
installations

Installations metadata.
dataset_metrics

Geta details on a dataset.
suggestfields

Fields available in gbif_suggest function
isocodes

Table of country two character ISO codes, and GBIF names
nodes

Nodes metadata.
rgb_country_codes

Look up 2 character ISO country codes
occ_search

Search for GBIF occurrences.
stylegeojson

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

Custom ggplot2 theme
densitylist

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

Check if object is of class gbifdens
name_backbone

Lookup names in the GBIF backbone taxonomy.
check_wkt

Check input WKT
taxrank

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

Print summary of gbifdens class
gbifmap

Make a map to visualize GBIF occurrence data.
gist

Post a file as a Github gist
commas_to_periods

Convert commas to periods in lat/long data
resources

Get data resources and their unique keys.
occ_count

Get number of occurrence records.
taxonsearch

Search for taxa in GBIF.
datasetparser

Parser for gbif data
typestatus

Type status options for GBIF searching
rgbif-deprecated

Deprecated functions in rgbif
gbifparser_verbatim

Parser for gbif data
occurrencecount

Counts taxon concept records matching a range of filters.
dataset_search

Search datasets in GBIF.
is.gbiflist

Check if object is of class gbiflist
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.
occurrencelist_all

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

Parser for name_usage endpoints, for fxns name_lookup and name_backbone
organizations

Organizations metadata.
providers

Get data providers and their unique keys.
name_usage

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

Networks metadata.
parseresults

Parse results from call to occurrencelist endpoint
count_facet

Facetted count occurrence search.
togeojson

Convert spatial data files to GeoJSON from various formats.
occ_metadata

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

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

Search for datasets and dataset metadata.
print.gbiflist_na

Print summary of gbiflist_na class
gbifparser

Parser for gbif data
occ_get

Get data for specific GBIF occurrences.
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