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.
• Occurrence manual (https://books.ropensci.org/occurrences/): a book covering a suite of R packages used for working with biological occurrence data.

Check out the rgbif paper for more information on this package and the sister Python and Ruby 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

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

library("rgbif")

Note: Windows users have to first install Rtools (https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/) to use devtools

Mac Users: (in case of errors)

Terminal:

Install gdal : https://github.com/edzer/sfr/blob/master/README.md#macos

brew install openssl

in R:

install.packages('openssl')
install.packages('rgeos')
install.packages('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

• Please report any issues or bugs.
• 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.

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

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