rgbif (version 0.9.2)

rgbif-package: Interface to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility API.

Description

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

Arguments

About

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

A note about the old GBIF API

The old GBIF API was at http://data.gbif.org/tutorial/services, but is now defunct - that is, not available anymore. We used to have functions that worked with the old API, but those functions are now not available anymore because GBIF made the old API defunct.

Documentation for the GBIF API

  • summaryhttp://www.gbif.org/developer/summary- Summary of the GBIF API
  • registryhttp://www.gbif.org/developer/registry- Metadata on datasets, and contributing organizations
  • species nameshttp://www.gbif.org/developer/species- Species names and metadata
  • occurrenceshttp://www.gbif.org/developer/occurrence- Occurrences
  • mapshttp://www.gbif.org/developer/maps- Maps - these APIs are not implemented inrgbif, and are meant more for intergration with web based maps.