Interface to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility API


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rgbif-package rgbif: A programmatic interface to the Web Service methods provided by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
count_facet Facetted count occurrence search.
datasets Search for datasets and dataset metadata.
dataset_metrics Geta details on a dataset.
dataset_search Search datasets in GBIF.
dataset_suggest Suggest datasets in GBIF.
densitylist The density web service provides access to records showing the density of occurrence records from the GBIF Network by one-degree cell.
density_spplist The density web service provides access to records showing the density of occurrence records from the GBIF Network by one-degree cell.
elevation Get elevation for lat/long points from a data.frame or list of points.
gbifdata Get data.frame from occurrencelist, occurrencelist_many, or densitylist.
gbifdata.gbifdens Get data.frame from occurrencelist, occurrencelist_many, or densitylist.
gbifdata.gbiflist Get data.frame from occurrencelist, occurrencelist_many, or densitylist.
gbifdata.gbiflist_na Get data.frame from occurrencelist, occurrencelist_many, or densitylist.
gbifmap Make a map to visualize GBIF occurrence data.
gbifmap_dens Make a simple map to visualize GBIF data density data
gbifmap_list Make a simple map to visualize GBIF point data.
gist Post a file as a Github gist
installations Installations metadata.
is.gbifdens Check if object is of class gbifdens
is.gbiflist Check if object is of class gbiflist
is.gbiflist_na Check if object is of class gbiflist_na
isocodes Table of country two character ISO codes, and GBIF names
name_backbone Lookup names in the GBIF backbone taxonomy.
name_lookup Lookup names in all taxonomies in GBIF.
name_suggest A quick and simple autocomplete service that returns up to 20 name usages by doing prefix matching against the scientific name. Results are ordered by relevance.
name_usage Lookup details for specific names in all taxonomies in GBIF.
networks Networks metadata.
nodes Nodes metadata.
occurrencecount Counts taxon concept records matching a range of filters.
occurrencedensity Returns summary counts of occurrence records by one-degree cell for a single taxon, country, dataset, data publisher or data network.
occurrenceget Get individual records for a given occurrence record.
occurrencelist Occurrencelist searches for taxon concept records matching a range of filters.
occurrencelist_all Occurrencelist_all carries out an occurrencelist query for a single name and all its name variants according to GBIF's name matching.
occurrencelist_many occurrencelist_many is the same as occurrencelist, but takes in a vector of species names.
occ_count Get number of occurrence records.
occ_get Get data for specific GBIF occurrences.
occ_metadata Search for catalog numbers, collection codes, collector names, and institution codes.
occ_search Search for GBIF occurrences.
organizations Organizations metadata.
parsenames Parse taxon names using the GBIF name parser.
print.gbifdens Print summary of gbifdens class
print.gbiflist Print summary of gbiflist class
print.gbiflist_na Print summary of gbiflist_na class
providers Get data providers and their unique keys.
resources Get data resources and their unique keys.
rgbif rgbif: A programmatic interface to the Web Service methods provided by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
rgbif-deprecated Deprecated functions in rgbif
rgb_country_codes Look up 2 character ISO country codes
stylegeojson Style a data.frame prior to converting to geojson.
taxoncount Search by taxon to retrieve number of records in GBIF.
taxonget Get taxonomic information on a specific taxon or taxa in GBIF by their taxon concept keys.
taxonsearch Search for taxa in GBIF.
taxrank Get the possible values to be used for (taxonomic) rank arguments in GBIF API methods.
togeojson Convert spatial data files to GeoJSON from various formats.