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spocc (version 0.2.2)

R Interface to Many Species Occurrence Data Sources.

Description

A programmatic interface to many species occurrence data sources, including GBIF, USGS's BISON, iNaturalist, Berkeley Ecoinformatics Engine eBird, AntWeb, and more as they sources become easily available.

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install.packages('spocc')

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0.2.2

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MIT + file LICENSE

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October 24th, 2014

Functions in spocc (0.2.2)

clean_spocc

Clean spocc data
occ_names

Search for species names across many data sources.
basemaps

Base maps to use with maprcharts function
occ2df

Combine results from occ calls to a single data.frame
mapleaflet

Make an interactive map to view in the browser
palettes

Palettes to use with maprcharts function
bbox2wkt

Convert a bounding box to a Well Known Text polygon, and a WKT to a bounding box
spocc_togeojson

Convert spatial data files to GeoJSON from various formats.
spocc_stylegeojson

Style a data.frame prior to converting to geojson.
occ_options

Look up options for parameters passed to each source
wkt_vis

Visualize well-known text area's on a map.
spocc_colClasses

Coerces data.frame columns to the specified classes
spocc_blanktheme

Custom ggplot2 theme
mapgist

Make an interactive map to view in the browser as a Github gist
occ_to_sp

Create a spatial points dataframe from a spocc search.
spocc_type_sum

Type summary
spocc_gbifxmlToDataFrame

Code based on the `gbifxmlToDataFrame` function from dismo package (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dismo/index.html), by Robert Hijmans, 2012-05-31, License: GPL v3
occ_coverage

Automatically generate coverages for a spocc search
spocc-package

R interface to many species occurrence data sources
mapggplot

ggplot2 visualization of species occurences
spocc_get_credentials

Get Github credentials from use in console
handle_sp

sp etc. objects handler
spocc_capwords

Capitalize the first letter of a character string.
spocc_duplicates

A note about duplicate occurrence records
occ2sp

Occ output or data.frame to sp SpatialPointsDataFrame class
spocc_create_gist

Function that takes a list of files and creates payload for API
get_colors

Get colors from a vector of input taxonomic names, and palette
fixnames

Change names to be the same for each taxon.
get_palette

Get palette actual name from longer names
spocc_rcharts_togeojson

Get palette actual name from longer names
occ

Search for species occurrence data across many data sources.
spocc_objects

spocc objects and their print, plot, and summary methods
spocc_gist

Post a file as a Github gist
occ_names_options

Look up options for parameters passed to each source for occ_names function