rfishbase

R Interface to 'FishBase'

Duncan Temple Lang, Peter Wainwright, Carl Boettiger, Scott Chamberlain

Last update: 2 June 2023

Copyright license: CC0

Software version identifier: 4.1.1, 0.0-7, 0.0-8, 0.0-9, 0.2-1, 0.2-2, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 3.0.0.1, 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.1.4, 3.1.5, 3.1.6, 3.1.7, 3.1.8, 3.1.9, 3.1.10, 4.0.0, 4.1.0, 4.1.2

Source code repository: https://github.com/cran/rfishbase

Description

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.'