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rbison R Package

An R package or wrapper for interacting with the USGS BISON search API.

Citation

Scott Chamberlain (2019). rbison: Interface to the 'USGS' 'BISON' API. R package version 0.8.0. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rbison

Summary

rbison is an R package or wrapper for interacting with the USGS BISON search API (https://bison.usgs.gov/#opensearch). rbison allows users to pull species occurrence data from datasets available from the USGS BISON application, inspect species occurance summaries, and then map species occurance within the US, within the contiguous 48 states, and/or at county or state level. The U.S. Geological Survey's BISON (Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation - https://bison.usgs.gov) application is a product of the USGS Science, Analytics and Synthesis Program. BISON is an information system that allows users to access, explore, and download species occurrence data (predominantly specimen-based e.g. from digitized museum collections and [...]

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Installation:

From CRAN:
install.packages("rbison")

Or the development version from Github:
install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("ropensci/rbison")
library('rbison')

Load package:
library("rbison")

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This package is part of the rOpenSci Project (https://ropensci.org/). This project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct (https://github.com/ropensci/rbison/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md). By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms. This package is part of a richer suite called SPOCC Species Occurrence Data (https://github.com/ropensci/spocc), along with several other packages, that provide access to occurrence records from multiple databases. We recommend using SPOCC as the primary R interface to rbison unless your needs are limited to this single source.

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