About
ridigbio provides an interface to the iDigBio data API described here:
https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/IDigBio_API. With this package
you can retrieve specimen and media records from the iDigBio data
repository. The iDigBio portal https://portal.idigbio.org/ uses the
same API so you should be able to retrieve the same information as shown in
the portal. iDigBio contains nearly 30 million data records on musuem specimens held at
United States institutions. It also holds nearly 5 million images of these
specimens.Getting Started
The main function is idig_search_records
and reviewing its
documenation first with ?idig_search_records
is recommended.Limitations
This package does not yet provide an interface to the mapping or the
download APIs.Citing
To cite the ridigbio package in your work, please use the following format: Michonneau F, Collins M, Chamberlain SA (2016). ridigbio: An interface to iDigBio's search API that allows downloading specimen records. R package version 0.3.2. https://github.com/iDigBio/ridigbio