R Interface to FishBASE

Documentation for package ‘rfishbase’ version 0.2-2

familySearch	A function to find all fish that are members of a scientific Family
findSpecies	Returns the matching indices in the data given a list of species names
fish.data	A cached copy of extracted FishBase data, 14 Febuary 2013.
fish_names	Return the scientific names, families, classes, or orders of the input data
getDepth	Returns available depth range data
getEnviroClimateRange	get the Environment, Climate, and Range of a species.
getIds	get fishbase id numbers
getLengthWeight	get the length weight table
getMetabolism	get metabolism table (oxygen consumption).
getPictures	getPictures from the fishbase database
getQuantTraits	Returns all quantitative trait values found in the morphology data
getRefs	Returns the FishBase reference id numbers matching a query.
getSize	Returns available size data of specified type (length, weight, or age)
getTrophicLevel	get trophic level
habitatSearch	A function to search for the occurances of any keyword in habitat description
labridtree	An example phylogeny of labrid fish
loadCache	Load an updated cache
updateCache	Update the cached copy of fishbase data
which_fish	which_fish is the the generic search function for fishbase a variety of description types