rgbif

rgbif gives you access to data from GBIF via their REST API. GBIF versions their API - we are currently using v1 of their API. You can no longer use their old API in this package - see ?rgbif-defunct.

Please cite rgbif. Run the following to get the appropriate citation for the version you're using:

citation(package = "rgbif")

To get started, see:

• rgbif vignette (https://docs.ropensci.org/rgbif/articles/rgbif.html): an introduction to the package's main functionalities.
• Function reference (https://docs.ropensci.org/rgbif/reference/index.html): an overview of all rgbif functions.
• Articles (https://docs.ropensci.org/rgbif/articles/index.html): vignettes/tutorials on how to download data, clean data, and work with taxonomic names.

Check out the rgbif paper for more information on this package and the sister Python, Ruby, and PHP clients.

Note: Maximum number of records you can get with occ_search() and occ_data() is 100,000. See https://www.gbif.org/developer/occurrence

Installation

install.packages("rgbif")

Or, install development version

pak::pkg_install("ropensci/rgbif")
# OR
install.packages("rgbif", repos="https://dev.ropensci.org")

library("rgbif")

Screencast

Contributors

This list honors all contributors in alphabetical order. Code contributors are in bold.

adamdsmith - AgustinCamacho - AldoCompagnoni - AlexPeap - andzandz11 - AshleyWoods - AugustT - barthoekstra - benmarwick - cathynewman - cboettig - coyotree - damianooldoni - dandaman - djokester - dlebauer - dmcglinn - dnoesgaard - DupontCai - ecology-data-science - EDiLD - elgabbas - emhart - fxi - ghost - gkburada - hadley - Huasheng12306 - ibartomeus - JanLauGe - jarioksa - jeroen - jhnwllr - jhpoelen - jivelasquezt - jkmccarthy - johnbaums - jtgiermakowski - jwhalennds - karthik - kgturner - Kim1801 - ljuliusson - ljvillanueva - luisDVA - martinpfannkuchen - MattBlissett - MattOates - maxhenschell - mdsumner - no-la-ngo - Octoberweather - Pakillo - peterdesmet - PhillRob - poldham - qgroom - raymondben - rossmounce - sacrevert - sagitaninta - sckott - scottsfarley93 - simon-tarr - SriramRamesh - stevenpbachman - stevensotelo - stevenysw - TomaszSuchan - tphilippi - vandit15 - vervis - vijaybarve - willgearty - Xuletajr - yvanlebras - zixuan75

Meta

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• License: MIT
• Get citation information for rgbif in R doing citation(package = 'rgbif')
• Please note that this package is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.

This package is part of spocc, along with several other packages, that provide access to occurrence records from multiple data sources.