ridigbio v0.3.4
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Interface to the iDigBio Data API
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 <https://www.idigbio.org> for information on iDigBio.
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Installation
This should automatically install the package from a CRAN mirror if you have one configured:
install.packages("ridigbio")
If R says the package is unavailable, you may not have set a CRAN mirror. You can do so with:
chooseCRANmirror()
If R says that a binary package is not available, your version of R may be too old. Please review the versions of R that CRAN has built packages for on the CRAN ridigbio package page. You can download the source package and install manually if there is no package built for your version of R. You may also need to install any dependencies.
install.packages("ridigbio", type="source")
Basic usage
library("ridigbio")
idig_search_records(rq=list(genus="acer"))
idig_search_records(rq=list(family="holothuriidae"), limit=1000)
Complete list of terms that can be used is available here
License
MIT
Functions in ridigbio
| Name | Description | |
| idig_POST | internal POST request | |
| idig_search | Basic searching of iDigBio records | |
| idig_top_records | Top records endpoint | |
| idig_top_media | Top media endpoint | |
| idig_validate | validate fields | |
| idig_view_media | view media endpoint | |
| idig_version | API version | |
| idig_search_records | Searching of iDigBio records | |
| idig_search_media | Searching of iDigBio media records | |
| idig_view_records | view specimen endpoint | |
| idig_url | base URL | |
| ridigbio | Retrieve data from the iDigBio specimen data repository. | |
| idig_build_attrib | Attribution dataframe of iDigBio records query | |
| idig_count_records | Count record endpoint | |
| idig_count_media | Count media endpoint | |
| build_field_lists | Build fields and fields_exclude for queries. | |
| idig_GET | internal GET request | |
| idig_meta_fields | meta fields endpoint | |
| idig_check | check HTTP code | |
| idig_check_error | Check is the request returned an error. | |
| idig_parse | parse successfully returned request | |
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Details
| Date | 2016-10-26 |
| URL | https://github.com/iDigBio/ridigbio |
| BugReports | https://github.com/iDigBio/ridigbio/issues |
| License | MIT + file LICENSE |
| LazyData | true |
| Repository | CRAN |
| RoxygenNote | 5.0.1 |
| NeedsCompilation | no |
| Packaged | 2016-10-26 17:46:28 UTC; mcollins |
| Date/Publication | 2016-10-27 00:21:15 |
| imports | httr , jsonlite , plyr , stats |
| depends | R (>= 3.0.1) |
| suggests | testthat |
| Contributors | Scott Chamberlain, Matthew Collins, Francois Michonneau, Kevin Love, Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna |
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