ArctosR-package {ArctosR}R Documentation

ArctosR: An Interface to the Arctos Database

Description

The ArctosR package provides a set of functions to help users perform requests to the Arctos API to download data. It provides a set of builder classes for performing complex requests, as well as a set of simple functions for automating many common requests and workflows.

About Arctos

Arctos is community and an online collection management information system. Arctos is a consortium of museums and organizations that collaborate to serve data on over 5 million records from natural and cultural history collections. Arctos integrates access to information from diverse disciplines: anthropology, botany, entomology, ethnology, herpetology, geology, ichthyology, mammalogy, mineralogy, ornithology, paleontology, parasitology as well as archival and cultural collections. The web interface to the Arctos database can be found at https://arctos.database.museum/. For more information about Arctos, see https://arctosdb.org/about/, and Cicero et al. (2024) doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0296478.

Functions in ArctosR

get_query_parameters, get_result_parameters, get_record_count, get_records, response_data, save_response_rds, read_response_rds, save_response_csv, expand_column

Author(s)

Maintainer: Harlan Williams harlanrhwilliams@gmail.com

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See Also

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[Package ArctosR version 0.1.1 Index]