A programmatic interface to many species occurrence data sources, including GBIF, iNaturalist, Berkeley Ecoinformatics Engine, eBird, iDigBio, VertNet, OBIS, and ALA. Includes functionality for retrieving species occurrence data, and combining that data.
The main function to use is occ() - a single interface to
many species occurrence databases (see below for a list).
Other functions include:
occ2df() - Combine results from occ into a
data.frame
wkt_vis() - Visualize WKT strings (used to define
geometry based searches for some data sources) in an interactive map
| Provider | Web |
| GBIF | https://www.gbif.org/ |
| eBird | http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ |
| iNaturalist | https://www.inaturalist.org/ |
| VertNet | http://vertnet.org/ |
| iDigBio | https://www.idigbio.org/ |
| OBIS | https://www.obis.org/ |
| ALA | https://www.ala.org.au/ |
See spocc_duplicates() for more.
All data cleaning functionality is in as archived package: scrubr
(https://github.com/ropensci-archive/scrubr).
On CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/scrubr/.
See also package
https://cran.r-project.org/package=CoordinateCleaner
All mapping functionality is now in a separate package: mapr`` (<https://github.com/ropensci/mapr>) (formerly known as spoccutils`).
On CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/package=mapr
Scott Chamberlain