Interface to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility API

Documentation for package ‘rgbif’ version 0.5.0

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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.