Description
Interface to Global Biotic Interactions.
Description
A programmatic interface to the web service methods provided by Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (<https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/>). GloBI provides access to spatial-temporal species interaction records from sources all over the world. rglobi provides methods to search species interactions by location, interaction type, and taxonomic name.
README.md
'rglobi'
R library to access species interaction data of http://globalbioticinteractions.org
install
To install rglobi from CRAN:
install.packages("rglobi")
Or install development version:
install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("ropensci/rglobi")
examples
library(rglobi)
# find all unique prey names of Homo sapiens
prey_of("Homo sapiens")$target_taxon_name
# is a shortcut of
get_interactions_by_taxa(sourcetaxon='Homo sapiens', interactiontype='preysOn')$target_taxon_name
# list of supported interactions types
get_interaction_types()
# all known prey names and locations (latitude, longitude) where birds (Aves) preyed on rodents (Rodentia) in California
obs <- get_interactions_by_taxa(sourcetaxon = "Aves", bbox=c(-125.53344800000002,32.750323,-114.74487299999998,41.574361), targettaxon = "Rodentia", returnobservations=TRUE)
locations <- cbind(obs$target_taxon_name, obs$latitude, obs$longitude)
Please see R help pages (e.g. ?get_interactions_by_taxa and vignettes for more information.
tests
Tests can be executed using devtools package.
# workdir should be rglobi repo root directory (check with getwd())
# install dependencies
devtools::install('.')
devtools::test()
This should reload the library, executes the test_that testcases and show test reports.
documentation
roxygen2 is used to generate .Rd and NAMESPACE by running:
library(roxygen2)
roxygenize(".")
Vignettes are generated using knitr and markdown packages.
meta
Please report any issues or bugs.
This package is part of the rOpenSci project.
