ReLTER provides access to DEIMS-SDR (https://deims.org/), and allows interaction with data and software implemented by eLTER Research Infrastructure (RI) thus improving data sharing among European LTER projects. ReLTER uses the R language to access and interact with the DEIMS-SDR archive of information shared by the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) network. This package grew within eLTER H2020 as a major project that will help advance the development of European Long-Term Ecosystem Research Infrastructures (eLTER RI - https://elter-ri.eu). The ReLTER package functions in particular allow to: - retrieve the information about entities (e.g. sites, datasets, and activities) shared by DEIMS-SDR (see e.g. get_site_info function); - interact with the [ODSEurope](maps.opendatascience.eu) starting with the dataset shared by [DEIMS-SDR](https://deims.org/) (see e.g. [get_site_ODS](https://docs.ropensci.org/ReLTER/reference/get_site_ODS.html) function); - use the eLTER site informations to download and crop geospatial data from other platforms (see e.g. get_site_ODS function); - improve the quality of the dataset (see e.g. get_id_worms). Functions currently implemented are derived from discussions of the needs among the eLTER users community. The ReLTER package will continue to follow the progress of eLTER-RI and evolve, adding new tools and improvements as required.
Author
Maintainer: Alessandro Oggioni alessandro.oggioni@cnr.it (ORCID) [funder]
Authors:
Micha Silver silverm@post.bgu.ac.il (ORCID) [contributor]
Paolo Tagliolato tagliolato.a@irea.cnr.it (ORCID) [contributor]
Luigi Ranghetti luigi@ranghetti.info (ORCID) [contributor]
Other contributors:
Allison Horst (Allison reviewed the package (v. 1.0.0) for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/485) [reviewer]
Will Bolton (Will reviewed the package (v. 1.0.0) for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/485) [reviewer]
Mauro Lepore (Mauro was editor for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/485) [editor]