rOpenSci

📦 rOpenSci Packages

Complete list of all packages

Data Packages Packages that interface with data repositories

Package Description Details API   🔑
Dryad Connects to the Dryad data repository. CRAN  📄 ␡
BEFdata Connects to the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function China project. CRAN  📄 ␡
rfisheries Connects to the OpenFisheries database. CRAN  📄 ␡
Mendeley Programmatic interface to Mendeley Networks. CRAN  📄 ✓
ritis (deprecated) Integrated Taxonomic Information Service. All functions are now part of taxize. CRAN  📄 ␡
treebase Programmatic interface to treebase. CRAN  📄 ␡
rfishbase Programmatic interface to fishbase. CRAN  📄 ␡
flybase Programmatic interface to flybase. CRAN  📄 ␡
npn National Phenology Network. CRAN  📄 ␡
bhl Biodiversity Heritage Library. CRAN  📄 ␡
rgbif Global Biodiversity Information Facility. CRAN  📄 ␡
taxize Programmatic interface to many taxonomic APIs. CRAN  📄 ␡
ropensnp Wrapper to the openSNP data API. CRAN  📄 ␡
rvertnet Programmatic interface to the VertNet API. CRAN  📄 ␡
rentrez Programmatic interface to the NCBI eutils API. CRAN  📄 ␡
neotoma Rrogrammatic R interface to the Neotoma Paleoecological Database. CRAN  📄 ␡

Literature Packages Packages that interface with full-text of journals

Package Description Details API   🔑
rplos Connects to the full-text API of the Public Library of Science (PLOS). CRAN  📄 ✓
rEBI Connects to the European PubMed Central CRAN  📄 ✓
rspringer Full-text access to Springer journals. Development pending upcoming API changes. CRAN  📄 ✓
rpensoft Wrapper to PENSOFT journals web services. Not in active development. CRAN  📄 ␡
rhindawi R interface to the Hindawi Journals metadata and corpus. Not in active development. CRAN  📄 ␡

Altmetrics Packages Packages that interface with raw and aggregate altmetrics data.

Package Description Details API   🔑
raltmet Aggregates altmetrics from various sources such as Github, StackOverflow, and ,Dryad CRAN  📄 ␡
rImpactStory Programmatic interface to ImpactStory CRAN  📄 ✓
rAltmetric Programmatic interface to altmetric data from altmetric.com CRAN  📄 ✓
Citeulike R interface to CiteULike. Not in active development. CRAN  📄 ␡
DataCite Wrapper to DataCite metadata. CRAN  📄 ␡

Hybrid Packages Packages that not only retrieve data but also allows for data submission.

Package Description Details API   🔑
Figshare Programmatic interface to the Figshare. CRAN  📄 ✓

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