rfishbase: R Interface to 'FishBase'

A programmatic interface to 'FishBase', re-written based on an accompanying 'RESTful' API. Access tables describing over 30,000 species of fish, their biology, ecology, morphology, and more. This package also supports experimental access to 'SeaLifeBase' data, which contains nearly 200,000 species records for all types of aquatic life not covered by 'FishBase.'

Version: 5.0.1
Depends: R (≥ 4.0)
Imports: glue, stringr, purrr, httr, jsonlite, dplyr, duckdbfs (≥ 0.0.9), rlang, magrittr, memoise
Suggests: testthat, rmarkdown, knitr, covr, spelling, curl
Published: 2025-01-12
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.rfishbase
Author: Carl Boettiger ORCID iD [cre, aut], Scott Chamberlain ORCID iD [aut], Duncan Temple Lang [aut], Peter Wainwright [aut], Kevin Cazelles ORCID iD [ctb], Guohuan Su ORCID iD [ctb]
Maintainer: Carl Boettiger <cboettig at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/ropensci/rfishbase/issues
License: CC0
URL: https://docs.ropensci.org/rfishbase/, https://github.com/ropensci/rfishbase
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Citation: rfishbase citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: rfishbase results

Documentation:

Reference manual: rfishbase.html , rfishbase.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: rfishbase_5.0.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: rfishbase_5.0.1.zip, r-release: rfishbase_5.0.1.zip, r-oldrel: rfishbase_5.0.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): rfishbase_5.0.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): rfishbase_5.0.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): rfishbase_5.0.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): rfishbase_5.0.1.tgz
Old sources: rfishbase archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports: dietr, FishPhyloMaker
Reverse suggests: fishtree, fishualize, MSEtool

Linking:

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