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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
Authors:
Marlon E. Cobos manubio13@gmail.com
Jocelyn P. Colella colella@ku.edu
Michelle S. Koo mkoo@berkeley.edu
Vijay Barve vijay.barve@gmail.com
See Also
Useful links: