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ridigbio (version 0.3.1)

Interface to the iDigBio Data API

Description

An interface to iDigBio's search API that allows downloading specimen records. Searches are returned as a data.frame. Other functions such as the metadata end points return lists of information. iDigBio is a US project focused on digitizing and serving museum specimen collections on the web. See for information on iDigBio.

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install.packages('ridigbio')

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0.3.1

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MIT + file LICENSE

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Matthew Collins

Last Published

August 31st, 2015

Functions in ridigbio (0.3.1)

idig_version

API version
build_field_lists

Build fields and fields_exclude for queries.
idig_top_media

Top media endpoint
ridigbio

Retrieve data from the iDigBio specimen data repository.
idig_view_media

view media endpoint
idig_count_records

Count record endpoint
idig_check_error

Check is the request returned an error.
idig_meta_fields

meta fields endpoint
idig_validate

validate fields
idig_GET

internal GET request
idig_url

base URL
idig_POST

internal POST request
idig_count_media

Count media endpoint
idig_view_records

view specimen endpoint
idig_search_records

Searching of iDigBio records
idig_top_records

Top records endpoint
idig_search

Basic searching of iDigBio records
idig_check

check HTTP code
idig_parse

parse successfully returned request
idig_search_media

Searching of iDigBio media records