A Curated Collection of Biodiversity and Species Datasets and Utilities.
BioWorldR
The BioWorldR package provides a curated collection of biodiversity and species-related datasets, covering a wide range of taxa including birds, plants, reptiles, turtles, mammals, bees, and marine organisms. By gathering and standardizing these datasets from public repositories and ecological R packages, it enables researchers, educators, and students to easily access well-documented examples for use in biodiversity, ecology, biogeography, and comparative biology.
Installation
You can install the BioWorldR package from CRAN with the following R function:
install.packages("BioWorldR")
Usage
After installation, load the package and start exploring and using its functions and datasets.
library(BioWorldR)
Dataset Suffixes
Each dataset in BioWorldR is labeled with a suffix to indicate its structure and type:
_df: A data frame_list: A list_tbl_df: A tibble
Datasets Included in BioWorldR
These datasets encompass a wide variety of formats and content, including species occurrence records, trait measurements, ecological interactions, population dynamics, and conservation-related information. By centralizing well-documented examples, BioWorldR simplifies teaching, prototyping, reproducible workflows, and exploratory analyses in the biological sciences.
Reptiles_df: This dataset contains the valid names and url addresses for all reptile species cataloged in The Reptile Database
Gorillas_df: Chest-beating rates in Gorillas.
Brain_animals: Brain weight versus body weight of 28 animals
Example Code:
# Load the package
library(BioWorldR)