This set of functions/package will access data from GBIF using their API methods.
See documentation the GBIF API here:
http://data.gbif.org/tutorial/services
install.packages("rgbif")
require(rgbif)
Install the development version using install_github
within Hadley's devtools package.
install.packages("devtools")
require(devtools)
install_github("rgbif", "ropensci")
require(rgbif)
Note:
Windows users have to first install Rtools.
- XML
- RCurl (>= 1.6)
- plyr
- ggplot2
- maps
- roxygen2 (as a suggest)
out <- occurrencelist(scientificname = 'Puma concolor', coordinatestatus = TRUE, maxresults = 100)
gbifmap_list(input = out) # make a map using vertmap
splist <- c('Accipiter erythronemius', 'Junco hyemalis', 'Aix sponsa')
out <- occurrencelist_many(splist, coordinatestatus = TRUE, maxresults = 20)
gbifmap_list(out)