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rgbif (version 0.7.0)

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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install.packages('rgbif')

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0.7.0

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Scott Chamberlain

Last Published

July 31st, 2014

Functions in rgbif (0.7.0)

occurrencecount

Counts taxon concept records matching a range of filters.
name_usage

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

Capitalize the first letter of a character string.
gbifmap_list

Make a simple map to visualize GBIF point data.
gbif_bbox2wkt

Convert a bounding box to a Well Known Text polygon, and a WKT to a bounding box
densitylist

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

Suggest datasets in GBIF.
gbifparser

Parser for gbif data
check_wkt

Check input WKT
gbif_photos

View photos from GBIF.
is.gbiflist

Check if object is of class gbiflist
get_credentials

Get Github credentials from use in console
create_gist

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

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

Print summary of gbifdens class
nodes

Nodes metadata.
gbifmap

Make a map to visualize GBIF occurrence data.
occurrencelist

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

Check if object is of class gbifdens
type_sum

Type summary
networks

Networks metadata.
rgbif-deprecated

Deprecated functions in rgbif
stylegeojson

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

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

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

Get data providers and their unique keys.
dataset_search

Search datasets in GBIF.
gbifparser_verbatim

Parser for gbif data
ldfast

Replacement function for ldply that should be faster.
count_facet

Facetted count occurrence search.
parseresults

Parse results from call to occurrencelist endpoint
namelkupparser

Parser for name_usage endpoints, for fxns name_lookup and name_backbone
commas_to_periods

Convert commas to periods in lat/long data
taxonget

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

Parse taxon names using the GBIF name parser.
gist

Post a file as a Github gist
density_spplist

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.
occ_metadata

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

Parser for gbif data
occurrenceget

Get individual records for a given occurrence record.
blanktheme

Custom ggplot2 theme
occurrencedensity

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

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

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

Geta details on a dataset.
typestatus

Type status options for GBIF searching
occ_count

Get number of occurrence records.
name_backbone

Lookup names in the GBIF backbone taxonomy.
taxonsearch

Search for taxa in GBIF.
rgb_country_codes

Look up 2 character ISO country codes
is.gbiflist_na

Check if object is of class gbiflist_na
datasets

Search for datasets and dataset metadata.
name_lookup

Lookup names in all taxonomies in GBIF.
organizations

Organizations metadata.
suggestfields

Fields available in gbif_suggest function
resources

Get data resources and their unique keys.
occurrencelist_all

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

Get data for specific GBIF occurrences.
print.gbiflist_na

Print summary of gbiflist_na class
togeojson

Convert spatial data files to GeoJSON from various formats.
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.
print.gbiflist

Print summary of gbiflist class
occ_search

Search for GBIF occurrences.
rgbif

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

Installations metadata.
taxoncount

Search by taxon to retrieve number of records in GBIF.