rgbif

rgbif-package


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


A programmatic interface to the Web Service methods
provided by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility ('GBIF').
'GBIF' is a database of species occurrence records from sources all
over the globe. 'rgbif' includes functions for searching for
taxonomic names, retrieving information on data providers,
getting species occurrence records, and getting counts of
occurrence records.

Scott Chamberlain

Interface to the Global 'Biodiversity' Information Facility
'API'

rgbif-package function

 This package gives you access to data from GBIF <a href="http://www.gbif.org/">http://www.gbif.org/</a> via their API.

About

 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.

A note about the old GBIF API

 <ul>
<li> summary <a href="http://www.gbif.org/developer/summary">http://www.gbif.org/developer/summary</a> - Summary of the GBIF API
  </li>
<li> registry <a href="http://www.gbif.org/developer/registry">http://www.gbif.org/developer/registry</a> - Metadata on datasets, and
  contributing organizations
  </li>
<li> species names <a href="http://www.gbif.org/developer/species">http://www.gbif.org/developer/species</a> - Species names and metadata
  </li>
<li> occurrences <a href="http://www.gbif.org/developer/occurrence">http://www.gbif.org/developer/occurrence</a> - Occurrences
  </li>
<li> maps <a href="http://www.gbif.org/developer/maps">http://www.gbif.org/developer/maps</a> - Maps - these APIs are not implemented
  in <code>rgbif</code>, and are meant more for intergration with web based maps.
</li>
</ul> 

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

Description

Arguments

About

A note about the old GBIF API

Documentation for the GBIF API