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Functions to Automate Downloading Geospatial Data Available from Several Federated Data Sources

R. Kyle Bocinsky
Description

Functions to automate downloading geospatial data available from several federated data sources (mainly sources maintained by the US Federal government). Currently, the package enables extraction from nine datasets: The National Elevation Dataset digital elevation models (1 and 1/3 arc-second; USGS); The National Hydrography Dataset (USGS); The Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) database from the National Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS), which is led by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the USDA; the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN), coordinated by National Climatic Data Center at NOAA; the Daymet gridded estimates of daily weather parameters for North America, version 4, available from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC); the International Tree Ring Data Bank; the National Land Cover Database (NLCD); the Cropland Data Layer from the National Agricultural Statistics Service; and the PAD-US dataset of protected area boundaries from the USGS.

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Scientific use cases
  1. McAfee, S. A., McCabe, G. J., Gray, S. T., & Pederson, G. T. (2018). Changing station coverage impacts temperature trends in the Upper Colorado River Basin. International Journal of Climatology. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.5898
  2. Medury, A., Griswold, J. B., Huang, L., & Grembek, O. (2019). Pedestrian Count Expansion Methods: Bridging the Gap between Land Use Groups and Empirical Clusters. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 036119811983826. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198119838266
  3. Meisner, J., Clifford, W. R., Wohrle, R. D., Kangiser, D., & Rabinowitz, P. (2019). Soil and climactic predictors of canine coccidioidomycosis seroprevalence in Washington State: an ecological cross‐sectional study. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. https://doi.org/10.1111/tbed.13265
  4. Saadi, M., Oudin, L., & Ribstein, P. (2019). Random Forest Ability in Regionalizing Hourly Hydrological Model Parameters. Water, 11(8), 1540. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11081540
  5. Martinez-Feria, R. A., & Basso, B. (2020). Unstable crop yields reveal opportunities for site-specific adaptations to climate variability. Scientific Reports, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59494-2
  6. Saadi, M., Oudin, L., & Ribstein, P. (2020). Beyond Imperviousness: The Role of Antecedent Wetness in Runoff Generation in Urbanized Catchments. Water Resources Research, 56(11). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020wr028060
  7. Porter, W. T., Barrand, Z. A., Wachara, J., DaVall, K., Mihaljevic, J. R., Pearson, T., … Nieto, N. C. (2021). Predicting the current and future distribution of the western black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus, across the Western US using citizen science collections. PLOS ONE, 16(1), e0244754. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244754

Sustainable Transport Planning

Robin Lovelace
Description

Tools for transport planning with an emphasis on spatial transport data and non-motorized modes. Create geographic “desire lines” from origin-destination (OD) data (building on the od package); calculate routes on the transport network locally and via interfaces to routing services such as https://cyclestreets.net/; calculate route segment attributes such as bearing. The package implements the travel flow aggregration method described in Morgan and Lovelace (2020) doi:10.1177/2399808320942779. Further information on the package’s aim and scope can be found in the vignettes and in a paper in the R Journal (Lovelace and Ellison 2018) doi:10.32614/RJ-2018-053.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Lovelace, R., Goodman, A., Aldred, R., Berkoff, N., Abbas, A., & Woodcock, J. (2015). The Propensity to Cycle Tool: An open source online system for sustainable transport planning. arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.04425 http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.04425
  2. Lovelace, R., Morgan, M., Hama, L., & Padgham, M. (2019). stats19: A package for working with open road crash data. Journal of Open Source Software, 4(33), 1181. https:://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01181
  3. Yen, Y., Zhao, P., & Sohail, M. T. (2019). The morphology and circuity of walkable, bikeable, and drivable street networks in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 239980831985772. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808319857726
  4. Zhao, P., & Cao, Y. (2020). Commuting inequity and its determinants in Shanghai: New findings from big-data analytics. Transport Policy, 92, 20–37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2020.03.006
  5. Morgan, M., & Lovelace, R. (2020). Travel flow aggregation: Nationally scalable methods for interactive and online visualisation of transport behaviour at the road network level. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 239980832094277. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808320942779
  6. Baddeley, A., Nair, G., Rakshit, S., McSwiggan, G., & Davies, T. M. (2020). Analysing point patterns on networks — A review. Spatial Statistics, 100435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spasta.2020.100435
  7. Bivand, R. S. (2020). Progress in the R ecosystem for representing and handling spatial data. Journal of Geographical Systems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10109-020-00336-0
  8. Fitzgerald, D. B., Henderson, A. R., Maloney, K. O., Freeman, M. C., Young, J. A., Rosenberger, A. E., … Smith, D. R. (2021). A Bayesian framework for assessing extinction risk based on ordinal categories of population condition and projected landscape change. Biological Conservation, 253, 108866. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108866
  9. Lovelace, R. (2021). Open source tools for geographic analysis in transport planning. Journal of Geographical Systems. doi:10.1007/s10109-020-00342-2

NASA POWER API Client

Adam H. Sparks
Description

An API client for NASA POWER global meteorology, surface solar energy and climatology data API. POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources) data are freely available for download with varying spatial resolutions dependent on the original data and with several temporal resolutions depending on the POWER parameter and community. This work is funded through the NASA Earth Science Directorate Applied Science Program. For more on the data themselves, the methodologies used in creating, a web- based data viewer and web access, please see https://power.larc.nasa.gov/.

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  1. Charalampopoulos, I. (2020). The R Language as a Tool for Biometeorological Research. Atmosphere, 11(7), 682. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11070682
  2. Costa-Neto, G., Fritsche-Neto, R., & Crossa, J. (2020). Nonlinear kernels, dominance, and envirotyping data increase the accuracy of genome-based prediction in multi-environment trials. Heredity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-020-00353-1
rebird
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R Client for the eBird Database of Bird Observations

Sebastian Pardo
Description

A programmatic client for the eBird database (https://ebird.org/home), including functions for searching for bird observations by geographic location (latitude, longitude), eBird hotspots, location identifiers, by notable sightings, by region, and by taxonomic name.

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  1. Mittermeier, T. et al. 2019. A season for all things: Phenological imprints in Wikipedia usage and their relevance toconservation. PLoS Biology https://research.birmingham.ac.uk/portal/files/58082037/pbio.3000146_1.pdf
weatherOz
Peer-reviewed

An API Client for Australian Weather and Climate Data Resources

Rodrigo Pires
Description

Provides automated downloading, parsing and formatting of weather data for Australia through API endpoints provided by the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) of Western Australia and by the Science and Technology Division of the Queensland Governments Department of Environment and Science (DES). As well as the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) of the Australian government precis and coastal forecasts, agriculture bulletin data, and downloading and importing radar and satellite imagery files. DPIRD weather data are accessed through public APIs provided by DPIRD, https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/weather-api-20, providing access to weather station data from DPIRDs weather station network. Australia-wide weather data are based on data from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) data and accessed through SILO (Scientific Information for Land Owners) (Jeffery et al., 2001, [doi: 10.1016/S1364-8152(01)00008-1](https://doi.org/ 10.1016/S1364-8152(01)00008-1)). DPIRD data are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Licence (CC BY 3.0 AU) license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/deed.en. SILO data are released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. BOM data are (c) Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology and released under a Creative Commons (CC) Attribution 3.0 licence or Public Access Licence (PAL) as appropriate, see http://www.bom.gov.au/other/copyright.shtml for further details.

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spocc
CRAN

Interface to Species Occurrence Data Sources

Hannah Owens
Description

A programmatic interface to many species occurrence data sources, including Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), iNaturalist, eBird, Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio), VertNet, Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), and Atlas of Living Australia (ALA). Includes functionality for retrieving species occurrence data, and combining those data.

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  1. Alfsnes, K., Leinaas, H. P., & Hessen, D. O. (2017). Genome size in arthropods: different roles of phylogeny, habitat and life history in insects and crustaceans. Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3163
  2. Vanderhoeven, S., Adriaens, T., Desmet, P., Strubbe, D., Backeljau, T., Barbier, Y., … Groom, Q. (2017). Tracking Invasive Alien Species (TrIAS): Building a data-driven framework to inform policy. Research Ideas and Outcomes, 3, e13414. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.3.e13414
  3. Pérez-Escobar, O. A., Rodriguez, L. K., & Martel, C. (2017). A new species of Telipogon (Oncidiinae: Orchidaceae) from the paramos of Colombia. Phytotaxa, 305(4), 262-268. http://www.biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.305.4.2
  4. Dallas, T., Decker, R. R., & Hastings, A. (2017). Species are not most abundant in the centre of their geographic range or climatic niche. Ecology Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12860
  5. Oldham, K. A., & Weeks, A. (2017). Varieties of Melampyrum Lineare (Orobanchaceae) Revisited. Rhodora. http://www.rhodorajournal.org/doi/abs/10.3119/16-13
  6. Sales, L. P., Ribeiro, B. R., Hayward, M. W., Paglia, A., Passamani, M., & Loyola, R. (2017). Niche conservatism and the invasive potential of the wild boar. Journal of Animal Ecology, 86(5), 1214–1223. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12721
  7. Longbottom, J., Shearer, F. M., Devine, M., Alcoba, G., Chappuis, F., Weiss, D. J., … Pigott, D. M. (2018). Vulnerability to snakebite envenoming: a global mapping of hotspots. The Lancet. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31224-8
  8. Samy, A. M., Alkishe, A. A., Thomas, S., Wang, L., & Zhang, W. (2018). Mapping the potential distributions of etiological agent, vectors, and reservoirs of Japanese Encephalitis in Asia and Australia. Acta Tropica. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2018.08.014
  9. Pfeffer, D. A., Lucas, T. C. D., May, D., Harris, J., Rozier, J., Twohig, K. A., … Gething, P. W. (2018). malariaAtlas: an R interface to global malariometric data hosted by the Malaria Atlas Project. Malaria Journal, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-018-2500-5
  10. Perez, T. M., Valverde-Barrantes, O., Bravo, C., Taylor, T. C., Fadrique, B., Hogan, J. A., … Feeley, K. J. (2018). Botanic gardens are an untapped resource for studying the functional ecology of tropical plants. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 374(1763), 20170390. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0390
  11. Zuquim, G., Costa, F. R. C., Tuomisto, H., Moulatlet, G. M., & Figueiredo, F. O. G. (2019). The importance of soils in predicting the future of plant habitat suitability in a tropical forest. Plant and Soil. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-018-03915-9
  12. Myers, E. A., Xue, A. T., Gehara, M., Cox, C., Davis Rabosky, A. R., Lemos‐Espinal, J., … Burbrink, F. T. (2019). Environmental Heterogeneity and Not Vicariant Biogeographic Barriers Generate Community Wide Population Structure in Desert Adapted Snakes. Molecular Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15182
  13. Pender, J. E., Hipp, A. L., Hahn, M., Kartesz, J., Nishino, M., & Starr, J. R. (2019). How sensitive are climatic niche inferences to distribution data sampling? A comparison of Biota of North America Program (BONAP) and Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) datasets. Ecological Informatics, 100991. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2019.100991
  14. Báez, J. C., Barbosa, A. M., Pascual, P., Ramos, M. L., & Abascal, F. (2019). Ensemble modeling of the potential distribution of the whale shark in the Atlantic Ocean. Ecology and Evolution, 10(1), 175–184. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5884
  15. Reyes, J. A., & Lira-Noriega, A. (2020). Current and future global potential distribution of the fruit fly Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae). The Canadian Entomologist, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.4039/tce.2020.3
  16. Sales, L., Culot, L., & Pires, M. M. (2020). Climate niche mismatch and the collapse of primate seed dispersal services in the Amazon. Biological Conservation, 247, 108628. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108628
  17. Gaynor, M. L., Fu, C., Gao, L., Lu, L., Soltis, D. E., & Soltis, P. S. (2020). Biogeography and ecological niche evolution in Diapensiaceae inferred from phylogenetic analysis. Journal of Systematics and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12646
  18. Bonello, G., Grillo, M., Cecchetto, M., Giallain, M., Granata, A., Guglielmo, L., … Schiaparelli, S. (2020). Distributional records of Ross Sea (Antarctica) planktic Copepoda from bibliographic data and samples curated at the Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA): checklist of species collected in the Ross Sea sector from 1987 to 1995. ZooKeys, 969, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.969.52334
  19. Milanesi, P., Mori, E., & Menchetti, M. (2020). Observer‐oriented approach improves species distribution models from citizen science data. Ecology and Evolution, 10(21), 12104–12114. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6832
  20. Fassio, G., Russini, V., Buge, B., Schiaparelli, S., Modica, M. V., Bouchet, P., & Oliverio, M. (2020). High cryptic diversity in the kleptoparasitic genus Hyalorisia Dall, 1889 (Littorinimorpha: Capulidae) with the description of nine new species from the Indo-West Pacific. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 86(4), 401–421. https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyaa028
  21. Lozano, V. (2021). Distribution of Five Aquatic Plants Native to South America and Invasive Elsewhere under Current Climate. Ecologies, 2(1), 27–42. doi:10.3390/ecologies2010003
  22. Escobar, S., Helmstetter, A. J., Jarvie, S., Montúfar, R., Balslev, H., & Couvreur, T. L. P. (2021). Pleistocene climatic fluctuations promoted alternative evolutionary histories in Phytelephas aequatorialis, an endemic palm from western Ecuador. Journal of Biogeography, 48(5), 1023–1037. doi:10.1111/jbi.14055

Getting Bibliographic Records from OpenAlex Database Using DSL API

Massimo Aria
Description

A set of tools to extract bibliographic content from OpenAlex database using API https://docs.openalex.org.

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paleobioDB
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Download and Process Data from the Paleobiology Database

Adrián Castro Insua
Description

Includes functions to wrap most endpoints of the PaleobioDB API and functions to visualize and process the fossil data. The API documentation for the Paleobiology Database can be found at https://paleobiodb.org/data1.2/.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Varela, S., González-Hernández, J., Sgarbi, L. F., Marshall, C., Uhen, M. D., Peters, S., & McClennen, M. (2014). paleobioDB: an R package for downloading, visualizing and processing data from the Paleobiology Database. Ecography, 38(4), 419–425. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.01154
  2. Read, J. S., Walker, J. I., Appling, A. P., Blodgett, D. L., Read, E. K., & Winslow, L. A. (2015). geoknife: reproducible web-processing of large gridded datasets. Ecography, 39(4), 354–360. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.01880
  3. Springer, M. S., Emerling, C. A., Meredith, R. W., Janečka, J. E., Eizirik, E., & Murphy, W. J. (2016). Waking the undead: implications of a soft explosive model for the timing of placental mammal diversification. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2016.09.017
  4. Pimiento, C., & Benton, M. J. (2020). The impact of the Pull of the Recent on extant elasmobranchs. Palaeontology. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12478
  5. Carrillo, J. D., Faurby, S., Silvestro, D., Zizka, A., Jaramillo, C., Bacon, C. D., & Antonelli, A. (2020). Disproportionate extinction of South American mammals drove the asymmetry of the Great American Biotic Interchange. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(42), 26281–26287. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2009397117

Collecting Twitter Data

Lluís Revilla Sancho
Description

An implementation of calls designed to collect and organize Twitter data via Twitter’s REST and stream Application Program Interfaces (API), which can be found at the following URL: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs.

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  1. Firmansyah, F. M., & Jones, J. J. (2019). Did the Black Panther Movie Make Blacks Blacker? Examining Black Racial Identity on Twitter Before and After the Black Panther Movie Release. Social Informatics, 66–78. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34971-4_5
  2. Sansone, A., Cignarelli, A., Ciocca, G., Pozza, C., Giorgino, F., Romanelli, F., & Jannini, E. A. (2019). The Sentiment Analysis of Tweets as a New Tool to Measure Public Perception of Male Erectile and Ejaculatory Dysfunctions. Sexual Medicine, 7(4), 464–471. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esxm.2019.07.001
  3. Tancoigne, E. (2019). Invisible brokers: “citizen science” on Twitter. Journal of Science Communication, 18(06). https://doi.org/10.22323/2.18060205
  4. Greenhalgh, S. P., Willet, K. B. S., & Koehler, M. J. (2019). Approaches to Mormon Identity and Practice in the #ldsconf Twitter Hashtag. Journal of Media and Religion, 18(4), 122–133. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348423.2019.1696121
  5. Mingione, M., Cristofaro, M., & Mondi, D. (2020). If I give you my emotion, what do I get? Conceptualizing and measuring the co-created emotional value of the brand. Journal of Business Research, 109, 310–320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.11.071
  6. Wunderlich, F., & Memmert, D. (2020). Innovative Approaches in Sports Science—Lexicon-Based Sentiment Analysis as a Tool to Analyze Sports-Related Twitter Communication. Applied Sciences, 10(2), 431. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10020431
  7. Fontanelli, O., & Mansilla, R. (2020). Modeling the Popularity of Twitter Hashtags with Master Equations. arXiv preprint, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.02672.pdf
  8. Hagen, L., Neely, S., Keller, T. E., Scharf, R., & Vasquez, F. E. (2020). Rise of the Machines? Examining the Influence of Social Bots on a Political Discussion Network. Social Science Computer Review, 089443932090819. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894439320908190
  9. Greenhalgh, S. P., Rosenberg, J. M., Staudt Willet, K. B., Koehler, M. J., & Akcaoglu, M. (2020). Identifying multiple learning spaces within a single teacher-focused Twitter hashtag. Computers & Education, 148, 103809. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2020.103809
  10. Bramlett, B. H., & Burge, R. P. (2020). God Talk in a Digital Age: How Members of Congress Use Religious Language on Twitter. Politics and Religion, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1755048320000231
  11. Rahman, M. M., Ali, G. G., Li, X. J., Paul, K. C., & Chong, P. H. (2020). Twitter and Census Data Analytics to Explore Socioeconomic Factors for Post-COVID-19 Reopening Sentiment. Nawaz and Li, Xue Jun and Paul, Kamal Chandra and Chong, Peter HJ, Twitter and Census Data Analytics to Explore Socioeconomic Factors for Post-COVID-19 Reopening Sentiment (June 30, 2020). https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.00054.pdf
  12. Greco, F., & La Rocca, G. (2020). The Topics-scape of the Pandemic Crisis: The Italian Sentiment on Political Leaders. Culture e Studi del Sociale, 5(1, Special), 335-346. http://www.cussoc.it/index.php/journal/article/view/134
  13. Barrios‐O’Neill, D. (2020). Focus and social contagion of environmental organization advocacy on Twitter. Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13564
  14. Puerta, P., Laguna, L., Vidal, L., Ares, G., Fiszman, S., & Tárrega, A. (2020). Co-occurrence networks of Twitter content after manual or automatic processing. A case-study on “gluten-free.” Food Quality and Preference, 86, 103993. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2020.103993
  15. Stephens, M. (2020). A geospatial infodemic: Mapping Twitter conspiracy theories of COVID-19. Dialogues in Human Geography, 10(2), 276–281. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820620935683
  16. Green, J., Edgerton, J., Naftel, D., Shoub, K., & Cranmer, S. J. (2020). Elusive consensus: Polarization in elite communication on the COVID-19 pandemic. Science Advances, 6(28), eabc2717. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abc2717
  17. Dogucu, M., & Çetinkaya-Rundel, M. (2020). Web Scraping in the Statistics and Data Science Curriculum: Challenges and Opportunities. Journal of Statistics Education, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/10691898.2020.1787116
  18. Xaudiera, S., & Cardenal, A. S. (2020). Ibuprofen Narratives in Five European Countries During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-029
  19. Ferster, C., Laberee, K., Nelson, T., Thigpen, C., Simeone, M., & Winters, M. (2020). From advocacy to acceptance: Social media discussions of protected bike lane installations. Urban Studies, 004209802093825. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098020938252
  20. Laguna, L., Fiszman, S., Puerta, P., Chaya, C., & Tárrega, A. (2020). The impact of COVID-19 lockdown on food priorities. Results from a preliminary study using social media and an online survey with Spanish consumers. Food Quality and Preference, 86, 104028. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2020.104028
  21. Sass, C. A. B., Pimentel, T. C., Aleixo, M. G. B., Dantas, T. M., Cyrino Oliveira, F. L., Freitas, M. Q., … Esmerino, E. A. (2020). Exploring social media data to understand consumers’ perception of eggs: A multilingual study using Twitter. Journal of Sensory Studies. https://doi.org/10.1111/joss.12607
  22. Kamiński, M., Szymańska, C., & Nowak, J. K. (2020). Whose Tweets on COVID-19 Gain the Most Attention: Celebrities, Political, or Scientific Authorities? Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2020.0336
  23. Xu, S., & Xiong, Y. (2020). Setting socially mediated engagement parameters: A topic modeling and text analytic approach to examining polarized discourses on Gillette’s campaign. Public Relations Review, 46(5), 101959. doi:10.1016/j.pubrev.2020.101959
  24. Sältzer, M. (2020). Finding the bird’s wings: Dimensions of factional conflict on Twitter. Party Politics, 135406882095796. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068820957960
  25. Sutton, J., Renshaw, S. L., & Butts, C. T. (2020). The First 60 Days: American Public Health Agencies’ Social Media Strategies in the Emerging COVID-19 Pandemic. Health Security, 18(6), 454–460. https://doi.org/10.1089/hs.2020.0105
  26. Lemay, D. J., & Doleck, T. (2020). Online Learning Communities in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Social Learning Network Analysis of Twitter during the Shutdown. International Journal of Learning Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Education (iJAI), 2(1) https://onlinejour.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/i-jai/article/view/15427
  27. Hu, L., & Kearney, M. W. (2020). Gendered Tweets: Computational Text Analysis of Gender Differences in Political Discussion on Twitter. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 0261927X2096975. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927x20969752
  28. Fuoli, M., Clarke, I., Wiegand, V., Ziezold, H., & Mahlberg, M. (2020). Responding Effectively to Customer Feedback on Twitter: A Mixed Methods Study of Webcare Styles. Applied Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amaa046
  29. Johnson, T., & Greenwell, M. P. (2020, November 12). Is sustainability advertising just a public relations stunt?. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/avy4d
  30. Koh, J. X., & Liew, T. M. (2020). How loneliness is talked about in social media during COVID-19 pandemic: Text mining of 4,492 Twitter feeds. Journal of Psychiatric Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2020.11.015
  31. Bittermann, A., Batzdorfer, V., Müller, S. M., & Steinmetz, H. (2021). Mining Twitter to detect hotspots in psychology. Zeitschrift für Psychologie. https://www.psycharchives.org/bitstream/20.500.12034/3956/1/ESM%201_methods.pdf
  32. Lucas, B., & Landman, T. (2020). Social listening, modern slavery, and COVID-19. Journal of Risk Research, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2020.1864009
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rgbif
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Interface to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility API

John Waller
Description

A programmatic interface to the Web Service methods provided by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF; https://www.gbif.org/developer/summary). GBIF is a database of species occurrence records from sources all over the globe. rgbif includes functions for searching for taxonomic names, retrieving information on data providers, getting species occurrence records, getting counts of occurrence records, and using the GBIF tile map service to make rasters summarizing huge amounts of data.

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Scientific use cases
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fingertipsR
Peer-reviewed

Fingertips Data for Public Health

Annabel Westermann
Description

Fingertips (http://fingertips.phe.org.uk/) contains data for many indicators of public health in England. The underlying data is now more easily accessible by making use of the API.

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Scientific use cases
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DoOR.functions
Peer-reviewed

A DoOR to the Complete Olfactome

Daniel Münch
Description

This is a function package providing functions to perform data manipulations and visualizations for DoOR.data. See the URLs for the original and the DoOR 2.0 publication.

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webchem
CRAN

Chemical Information from the Web

Tamás Stirling
Description

Chemical information from around the web. This package interacts with a suite of web services for chemical information. Sources include: Alan Wood’s Compendium of Pesticide Common Names, Chemical Identifier Resolver, ChEBI, Chemical Translation Service, ChemSpider, ETOX, Flavornet, NIST Chemistry WebBook, OPSIN, PubChem, SRS, Wikidata.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Pirhadi, S., Sunseri, J., & Koes, D. R. (2016). Open Source Molecular Modeling. Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmgm.2016.07.008
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Drugs Databases Parser

Mohammed Ali
Description

This tool is for parsing public drug databases such as DrugBank XML database https://go.drugbank.com/. The parsed data are then returned in a proper R object called dvobject.

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treebase
CRAN

Discovery, Access and Manipulation of TreeBASE Phylogenies

Carl Boettiger
Description

Interface to the API for TreeBASE http://treebase.org from R. TreeBASE is a repository of user-submitted phylogenetic trees (of species, population, or genes) and the data used to create them.

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rvertnet
CRAN

Search Vertnet, a Database of Vertebrate Specimen Records

Dave Slager
Description

Retrieve, map and summarize data from the VertNet.org archives (https://vertnet.org/). Functions allow searching by many parameters, including taxonomic names, places, and dates. In addition, there is an interface for conducting spatially delimited searches, and another for requesting large datasets via email.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Drozd, P., & Šipoš, J. (2013). R for all (I): Introduction to the new age of biological analyses. Casopis Slezskeho Zemskeho Muzea A, 62(1). https://doi.org/10.2478/cszma-2013-0004

Interface with the United Nations Comtrade API

Paul Bochtler
Description

Interface with and extract data from the United Nations Comtrade API https://comtradeplus.un.org/. Comtrade provides country level shipping data for a variety of commodities, these functions allow for easy API query and data returned as a tidy data frame.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Chini, C. M., & Peer, R. A. M. (2021). The traded water footprint of global energy from 2010 to 2018. Scientific Data, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00795-6
getCRUCLdata
Peer-reviewed

CRU CL v. 2.0 Climatology Client

Adam H. Sparks
Description

Provides functions that automate downloading and importing University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU) CL v. 2.0 climatology data, facilitates the calculation of minimum temperature and maximum temperature and formats the data into a data frame or a list of terra rast objects for use. CRU CL v. 2.0 data are a gridded climatology of 1961-1990 monthly means released in 2002 and cover all land areas (excluding Antarctica) at 10 arc minutes (0.1666667 degree) resolution. For more information see the description of the data provided by the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit, https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/tmc/readme.txt.

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Global Surface Summary of the Day (GSOD) Weather Data Client

Adam H. Sparks
Description

Provides automated downloading, parsing, cleaning, unit conversion and formatting of Global Surface Summary of the Day (GSOD) weather data from the from the USA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Units are converted from from United States Customary System (USCS) units to International System of Units (SI). Stations may be individually checked for number of missing days defined by the user, where stations with too many missing observations are omitted. Only stations with valid reported latitude and longitude values are permitted in the final data. Additional useful elements, saturation vapour pressure (es), actual vapour pressure (ea) and relative humidity (RH) are calculated from the original data using the improved August-Roche-Magnus approximation (Alduchov & Eskridge 1996) and included in the final data set. The resulting metadata include station identification information, country, state, latitude, longitude, elevation, weather observations and associated flags. For information on the GSOD data from NCEI, please see the GSOD readme.txt file available from, https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/gsod/readme.txt.

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Scientific use cases
  1. H Sparks, A., Hengl, T., & Nelson, A. (2017). GSODR: Global Summary Daily Weather Data in R. The Journal of Open Source Software, 2(10). https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.00177
  2. Halimubieke, N., Kupán, K., Valdebenito, J. O., Kubelka, V., Carmona-Isunza, M. C., Burgas, D., … Székely, T. (2020). Successful breeding predicts divorce in plovers. Scientific Reports, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-72521-6
rnaturalearthhires

High Resolution World Vector Map Data from Natural Earth used in rnaturalearth

Andy South
Description

Facilitates mapping by making natural earth map data from http:// www.naturalearthdata.com/ more easily available to R users. Focuses on vector data.

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Work with Open Road Traffic Casualty Data from Great Britain

Robin Lovelace
Description

Tools to help download, process and analyse the UK road collision data collected using the STATS19 form. The datasets are provided as CSV files with detailed road safety information about the circumstances of car crashes and other incidents on the roads resulting in casualties in Great Britain from 1979 to present. Tables are available on colissions with the circumstances (e.g. speed limit of road), information about vehicles involved (e.g. type of vehicle), and casualties (e.g. age). The statistics relate only to events on public roads that were reported to the police, and subsequently recorded, using the STATS19 collision reporting form. See the Department for Transport website https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/cb7ae6f0-4be6-4935-9277-47e5ce24a11f/road-safety-data for more information on these datasets. The package is described in a paper in the Journal of Open Source Software (Lovelace et al. 2019) doi:10.21105/joss.01181. See Gilardi et al. (2022) doi:10.1111/rssa.12823, Vidal-Tortosa et al. (2021) doi:10.1016/j.jth.2021.101291, and Tait et al. (2023) doi:10.1016/j.aap.2022.106895 for examples of how the data can be used for methodological and empirical road safety research.

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Download and Aggregate Data from Public Hire Bicycle Systems

Mark Padgham
Description

Download and aggregate data from all public hire bicycle systems which provide open data, currently including Santander Cycles in London, U.K.; from the U.S.A., Ford GoBike in San Francisco CA, citibike in New York City NY, Divvy in Chicago IL, Capital Bikeshare in Washington DC, Hubway in Boston MA, Metro in Los Angeles LA, Indego in Philadelphia PA, and Nice Ride in Minnesota; Bixi from Montreal, Canada; and mibici from Guadalajara, Mexico.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Hosford, K., & Winters, M. 2019. Quantifying the Bicycle Share Gender Gap. Transport Findings, November. https://doi.org/10.32866/10802
  2. Morton, C. (2020). The demand for cycle sharing: Examining the links between weather conditions, air quality levels, and cycling demand for regular and casual users. Journal of Transport Geography, 88, 102854. doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2020.102854

Download Qualtrics Survey Data

Julia Silge
Description

Provides functions to access survey results directly into R using the Qualtrics API. Qualtrics https://www.qualtrics.com/about/ is an online survey and data collection software platform. See https://api.qualtrics.com/ for more information about the Qualtrics API. This package is community-maintained and is not officially supported by Qualtrics.

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c14bazAAR

Download and Prepare C14 Dates from Different Source Databases

Clemens Schmid
Description

Query different C14 date databases and apply basic data cleaning, merging and calibration steps. Currently available databases: 14cpalaeolithic, 14sea, adrac, agrichange, aida, austarch, bda, calpal, caribbean, eubar, euroevol, irdd, jomon, katsianis, kiteeastafrica, medafricarbon, mesorad, neonet, neonetatl, nerd, p3k14c, pacea, palmisano, radon, radonb, rxpand, sard.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Crema, E. R., & Shoda, S. (2021). A Bayesian approach for fitting and comparing demographic growth models of radiocarbon dates: A case study on the Jomon-Yayoi transition in Kyushu (Japan). PLOS ONE, 16(5), e0251695. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0251695

Interact with the UK AIR Pollution Database from DEFRA

Claudia Vitolo
Description

This packages allows to retrieve air pollution data from the Air Information Resource (UK-AIR, https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/) of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) in the United Kingdom. UK-AIR does not provide a public API for programmatic access to data, therefore this package scrapes the HTML pages to get relevant information. The package is described in Vitolo et al. (2016) “rdefra: Interact with the UK AIR Pollution Database from DEFRA” doi:10.21105/joss.00051.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Vitolo, C., Scutari, M., Ghalaieny, M., Tucker, A., & Russell, A. (2018). Modelling air pollution, climate and health data using Bayesian Networks: a case study of the English regions. Earth and Space Science. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017ea000326
hydroscoper
Peer-reviewed

Interface to the Greek National Data Bank for Hydrometeorological Information

Konstantinos Vantas
Description

R interface to the Greek National Data Bank for Hydrological and Meteorological Information. It covers Hydroscope’s data sources and provides functions to transliterate, translate and download them into tidy dataframes.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Vantas, K. (2018). hydroscoper: R interface to the Greek National Data Bank for Hydrological and Meteorological Information. Journal of Open Source Software, 3(23), 625. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.00625
  2. Vantas, K., Sidiropoulos, E., & Loukas, A. (2019). Robustness Spatiotemporal Clustering and Trend Detection of Rainfall Erosivity Density in Greece. Water, 11(5), 1050. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11051050
  3. Vantas, K., Sidiropoulos, E., & Loukas, A. (2020). Estimating Current and Future Rainfall Erosivity in Greece Using Regional Climate Models and Spatial Quantile Regression Forests. Water, 12(3), 687. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12030687
  4. Vantas, K., Sidiropoulos, E., & Evangelides, C. (2020). Estimating Rainfall Erosivity from Daily Precipitation Using Generalized Additive Models. Environmental Sciences Proceedings, 2(1), 21. doi:10.3390/environsciproc2020002021
UCSCXenaTools
CRAN Peer-reviewed

Download and Explore Datasets from UCSC Xena Data Hubs

Shixiang Wang
Description

Download and explore datasets from UCSC Xena data hubs, which are a collection of UCSC-hosted public databases such as TCGA, ICGC, TARGET, GTEx, CCLE, and others. Databases are normalized so they can be combined, linked, filtered, explored and downloaded.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Wang, S., He, Z., Wang, X., Li, H., & Liu, X.-S. (2019). Antigen presentation and tumor immunogenicity in cancer immunotherapy response prediction. eLife, 8. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.49020
  2. Li, Y., Ge, D., & Lu, C. (2019). The SMART App: an interactive web application for comprehensive DNA methylation analysis and visualization. Epigenetics & Chromatin, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13072-019-0316-3
  3. Kang, W., Zhang, M., Wang, Q., Gu, D., Huang, Z., Wang, H., … Jin, X. (2020). The SLC Family Are Candidate Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma. BioMed Research International, 2020, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/1932948
  4. Liu, Y., Wang, L., Lo, K.-W., & Lui, V. W. Y. (2020). Omics-wide quantitative B-cell infiltration analyses identify GPR18 for human cancer prognosis with superiority over CD20. Communications Biology, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-0964-7
  5. Wang, S., Xiong, Y., Gu, K., Zhao, L., Li, Y., Zhao, F., … Liu, X.-S. (2020). UCSCXenaShiny: An R Package for Exploring and Analyzing UCSC Xena Public Datasets in Web Browser. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202007.0179.v1
  6. Gvaldin, D. Y., Pushkin, A. A., Timoshkina, N. N., Rostorguev, E. E., Nalgiev, A. M., & Kit, O. I. (2020). Integrative analysis of mRNA and miRNA sequencing data for gliomas of various grades. Egyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics, 21(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s43042-020-00119-8
  7. Cui, Y., Hunt, A., Li, Z., Birkin, E., Lane, J., Ruge, F., & Jiang, W. G. (2021). Lead DEAD/H box helicase biomarkers with the therapeutic potential identified by integrated bioinformatic approaches in lung cancer. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 19, 261–278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2020.12.007
rerddap
CRAN

General Purpose Client for ERDDAP Servers

Roy Mendelssohn
Description

General purpose R client for ERDDAP servers. Includes functions to search for datasets, get summary information on datasets, and fetch datasets, in either csv or netCDF format. ERDDAP information: https://upwell.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/information.html.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Shabangu, F. W., Yemane, D., Stafford, K. M., Ensor, P., & Findlay, K. P. (2017). Modelling the effects of environmental conditions on the acoustic occurrence and behaviour of Antarctic blue whales. PLOS ONE, 12(2), e0172705. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172705
  2. Mendez, L., Borsa, P., Cruz, S., de Grissac, S., Hennicke, J., Lallemand, J., … Weimerskirch, H. (2017). Geographical variation in the foraging behaviour of the pantropical red-footed booby. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 568, 217–230. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12052
  3. Abolaffio, M., Reynolds, A. M., Cecere, J. G., Paiva, V. H., & Focardi, S. (2018). Olfactory-cued navigation in shearwaters: linking movement patterns to mechanisms. Scientific Reports, 8(1). http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29919-0
  4. Baylis, A. M. M., Tierney, M., Orben, R. A., Warwick-Evans, V., Wakefield, E., Grecian, W. J., … Brickle, P. (2019). Important At-Sea Areas of Colonial Breeding Marine Predators on the Southern Patagonian Shelf. Scientific Reports, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-44695-1
  5. O’Farrell, S., Chollett, I., Sanchirico, J. N., & Perruso, L. (2019). Classifying fishing behavioral diversity using high-frequency movement data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201906766. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1906766116
  6. Patel, S. H., Winton, M. V., Hatch, J. M., Haas, H. L., Saba, V. S., Fay, G., & Smolowitz, R. J. (2021). Projected shifts in loggerhead sea turtle thermal habitat in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean due to climate change. Scientific Reports, 11(1). doi:10.1038/s41598-021-88290-9

Extract and Tidy Canadian Hydrometric Data

Sam Albers
Description

Provides functions to access historical and real-time national hydrometric data from Water Survey of Canada data sources (https://dd.weather.gc.ca/hydrometric/csv/ and https://collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca/cmc/hydrometrics/www/) and then applies tidy data principles.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Albers, S. (2017). tidyhydat: Extract and Tidy Canadian Hydrometric Data. The Journal of Open Source Software, 2(20), 511. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.00511
  2. Beaton, A., Whaley, R., Corston, K., & Kenny, F. (2019). Identifying historic river ice breakup timing using MODIS and Google Earth Engine in support of operational flood monitoring in Northern Ontario. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.02.011
  3. Laceby, J. P., Batista, P. V. G., Taube, N., Kruk, M. K., Chung, C., Evrard, O., … Kerr, J. G. (2021). Tracing total and dissolved material in a western Canadian basin using quality control samples to guide the selection of fingerprinting parameters for modelling. CATENA, 200, 105095. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2020.105095

Mangal Client

Kevin Cazelles
Description

An interface to the Mangal database - a collection of ecological networks. This package includes functions to work with the Mangal RESTful API methods (https://mangal-interactions.github.io/mangal-api/).

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An Interface for the eLTER Community

Alessandro Oggioni
Description

ReLTER provides access to DEIMS-SDR (https://deims.org/), and allows interaction with data and software implemented by eLTER Research Infrastructure (RI) thus improving data sharing among European LTER projects. ReLTER uses the R language to access and interact with the DEIMS-SDR archive of information shared by the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) network. This package grew within eLTER H2020 as a major project that will help advance the development of European Long-Term Ecosystem Research Infrastructures (eLTER RI - https://elter-ri.eu). The ReLTER package functions in particular allow to: - retrieve the information about entities (e.g. sites, datasets, and activities) shared by DEIMS-SDR (see e.g. get_site_info function); - interact with the ODSEurope starting with the dataset shared by DEIMS-SDR (see e.g. get_site_ODS function); - use the eLTER site informations to download and crop geospatial data from other platforms (see e.g. get_site_ODS function); - improve the quality of the dataset (see e.g. get_id_worms). Functions currently implemented are derived from discussions of the needs among the eLTER users community. The ReLTER package will continue to follow the progress of eLTER-RI and evolve, adding new tools and improvements as required.

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Operations to Ease Data Analyses Specific to Nigeria

Victor Ordu
Description

A set of convenience functions as well as geographical/political data about Nigeria, aimed at simplifying work with data and information that are specific to the country.

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Download and Process Public Domain Works from Project Gutenberg

Harmon Jon
Description

Download and process public domain works in the Project Gutenberg collection https://www.gutenberg.org/. Includes metadata for all Project Gutenberg works, so that they can be searched and retrieved.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Çetinkaya-Rundel, M., & Ellison, V. (2020). A Fresh Look at Introductory Data Science. Journal of Statistics Education, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/10691898.2020.1804497
prism
CRAN

Access Data from the Oregon State Prism Climate Project

Alan Butler
Description

Allows users to access the Oregon State Prism climate data (https://prism.nacse.org/). Using the web service API data can easily downloaded in bulk and loaded into R for spatial analysis. Some user friendly visualizations are also provided.

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Genomic Data Retrieval

Hajk-Georg Drost
Description

Perform large scale genomic data retrieval and functional annotation retrieval. This package aims to provide users with a standardized way to automate genome, proteome, RNA, coding sequence (CDS), GFF, and metagenome retrieval from NCBI RefSeq, NCBI Genbank, ENSEMBL, and UniProt databases. Furthermore, an interface to the BioMart database (Smedley et al. (2009) doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-22) allows users to retrieve functional annotation for genomic loci. In addition, users can download entire databases such as NCBI RefSeq (Pruitt et al. (2007) doi:10.1093/nar/gkl842), NCBI nr, NCBI nt, NCBI Genbank (Benson et al. (2013) doi:10.1093/nar/gks1195), etc. with only one command.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Drost, H.-G., Gabel, A., Liu, J., Quint, M., & Grosse, I. (2017). myTAI: evolutionary transcriptomics with R. Bioinformatics. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btx835
  2. Gogleva, A., Drost, H.-G., & Schornack, S. (2018). SecretSanta: flexible pipelines for functional secretome prediction. Bioinformatics. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bty088
  3. Ng, P. K.-S., Li, J., Jeong, K. J., Shao, S., Chen, H., Tsang, Y. H., … Mills, G. B. (2018). Systematic Functional Annotation of Somatic Mutations in Cancer. Cancer Cell, 33(3), 450–462.e10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccell.2018.01.021
  4. Schwalie, P. C., Dong, H., Zachara, M., Russeil, J., Alpern, D., Akchiche, N., … Deplancke, B. (2018). A stromal cell population that inhibits adipogenesis in mammalian fat depots. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0226-8
  5. Wegrzyn, J. L., Falk, T., Grau, E., Buehler, S., Ramnath, R., & Herndon, N. (2019). Cyberinfrastructure and resources to enable an integrative approach to studying forest trees. Evolutionary Applications. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12860
  6. Karakülah, G., Arslan, N., Yandım, C., & Suner, A. (2019). TEffectR: an R package for studying the potential effects of transposable elements on gene expression with linear regression model. PeerJ, 7, e8192. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8192
  7. Noecker, C., Chiu, H. C., McNally, C. P., & Borenstein, E. (2019). Defining and evaluating microbial contributions to metabolite variation in microbiome-metabolome association studies. mSystems, 4(6). https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00579-19
  8. Kim, J., Yoon, S., & Nam, D. (2020). netGO: R-Shiny package for network-integrated pathway enrichment analysis. Bioinformatics. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa077
  9. Drost, H.-G. (2020). LTRpred: de novo annotation of intact retrotransposons. Journal of Open Source Software, 5(50), 2170. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.02170
  10. Bailey, T. W., Santos, A., Nascimento, N. C. de, Sivasankar, M. P., & Cox, A. (2020). RNA sequencing identifies transcriptional changes in the rabbit larynx in response to low humidity challenge. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-45442/v1
  11. Pimsler, M. L., Oyen, K. J., Herndon, J. D., Jackson, J. M., Strange, J. P., Dillon, M. E., & Lozier, J. D. (2020). Biogeographic parallels in thermal tolerance and gene expression variation under temperature stress in a widespread bumble bee. Scientific Reports, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73391-8
  12. Manjang, K., Tripathi, S., Yli-Harja, O., Dehmer, M., & Emmert-Streib, F. (2020). Graph-based exploitation of gene ontology using GOxploreR for scrutinizing biological significance. Scientific Reports, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73326-3
  13. Thrupp, N., Sala Frigerio, C., Wolfs, L., Skene, N. G., Fattorelli, N., Poovathingal, S., … Fiers, M. (2020). Single-Nucleus RNA-Seq Is Not Suitable for Detection of Microglial Activation Genes in Humans. Cell Reports, 32(13), 108189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108189
  14. Sarmah, D. T., Bairagi, N., & Chatterjee, S. (2020). Tracing the footsteps of autophagy in computational biology. Briefings in Bioinformatics. https://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbaa286
  15. Henkel, L., Rauscher, B., Schmitt, B., Winter, J., & Boutros, M. (2020). Genome-scale CRISPR screening at high sensitivity with an empirically designed sgRNA library. BMC Biology, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-020-00905-1
  16. Böttcher, A., Büttner, M., Tritschler, S., Sterr, M., Aliluev, A., Oppenländer, L., … Lickert, H. (2021). Non-canonical Wnt/PCP signalling regulates intestinal stem cell lineage priming towards enteroendocrine and Paneth cell fates. Nature Cell Biology, 23(1), 23–31. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-020-00617-2
  17. Tjeldnes, H., Labun, K., Cleuren, Y. T., Chyżyńska, K., Świrski, M., & Valen, E. (2021). ORFik: a comprehensive R toolkit for the analysis of translation. doi:10.1101/2021.01.16.426936

Access the openFEMA API

Dylan Turner
Description

rfema allows users to access The Federal Emergency Management Agencys (FEMA) publicly available data through their API. The package provides a set of functions to easily navigate and access data from the National Flood Insurance Program along with FEMAs various disaster aid programs, including the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, the Public Assistance Grant Program, and the Individual Assistance Grant Program.

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eBird Data Extraction and Processing in R

Matthew Strimas-Mackey
Description

Extract and process bird sightings records from eBird (http://ebird.org), an online tool for recording bird observations. Public access to the full eBird database is via the eBird Basic Dataset (EBD; see http://ebird.org/ebird/data/download for access), a downloadable text file. This package is an interface to AWK for extracting data from the EBD based on taxonomic, spatial, or temporal filters, to produce a manageable file size that can be imported into R.

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API Client and Dataset Management for the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Data

OJ Watson
Description

Provides a client for (1) querying the DHS API for survey indicators and metadata (https://api.dhsprogram.com/#/index.html), (2) identifying surveys and datasets for analysis, (3) downloading survey datasets from the DHS website, (4) loading datasets and associate metadata into R, and (5) extracting variables and combining datasets for pooled analysis.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Watson, O. J., Sumner, K. M., Janko, M., Goel, V., Winskill, P., Slater, H. C., … Parr, J. B. (2019). False-negative malaria rapid diagnostic test results and their impact on community-based malaria surveys in sub-Saharan Africa. BMJ Global Health, 4(4), e001582. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001582
  2. Sánchez-Páez, D. A., & Ortega, J. A. (2019). Reported patterns of pregnancy termination from Demographic and Health Surveys. PLOS ONE, 14(8), e0221178. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221178
  3. Finnegan, A., Sao, S. S., & Huchko, M. J. (2019). Using a Chord Diagram to Visualize Dynamics in Contraceptive Use: Bringing Data Into Practice. Global Health: Science and Practice, 7(4), 598–605. https://doi.org/10.9745/ghsp-d-19-00205
  4. Walker, P. G. T., Whittaker, C., Watson, O. J., Baguelin, M., Winskill, P., Hamlet, A., … Ghani, A. C. (2020). The impact of COVID-19 and strategies for mitigation and suppression in low- and middle-income countries. Science, eabc0035. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abc0035
  5. Li, Z. R., Martin, B. D., Dong, T. Q., Fuglstad, G. A., Paige, J., Riebler, A., … & Wakefield, J. (2020). Space-Time Smoothing of Demographic and Health Indicators using the R Package SUMMER. arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.05117 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.05117.
  6. Stresman, G., Whittaker, C., Slater, H. C., Bousema, T., & Cook, J. (2020). Quantifying Plasmodium falciparum infections clustering within households to inform household-based intervention strategies for malaria control programs: An observational study and meta-analysis from 41 malaria-endemic countries. PLOS Medicine, 17(10), e1003370. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003370
  7. Fu, H., Lewnard, J. A., Frost, I., Laxminarayan, R., & Arinaminpathy, N. (2021). Modelling the global burden of drug-resistant tuberculosis avertable by a post-exposure vaccine. Nature Communications, 12(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-020-20731-x

API Wrapper for US Energy Information Administration Open Data

Matthew Hoff
Description

Provides API access to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) https://www.eia.gov/. Use of the API requires a free API key obtainable at https://www.eia.gov/opendata/register.php. The package includes functions for searching EIA data categories and importing time series and geoset time series datasets. Datasets returned by these functions are provided in a tidy format or alternatively in more raw form. It also offers helper functions for working with EIA date strings and time formats and for inspecting different summaries of series metadata. The package also provides control over API key storage and caching of API request results.

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gbifdb
CRAN

High Performance Interface to GBIF

Carl Boettiger
Description

A high performance interface to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, GBIF. In contrast to rgbif, which can access small subsets of GBIF data through web-based queries to a central server, gbifdb provides enhanced performance for R users performing large-scale analyses on servers and cloud computing providers, providing full support for arbitrary SQL or dplyr operations on the complete GBIF data tables (now over 1 billion records, and over a terabyte in size). gbifdb accesses a copy of the GBIF data in parquet format, which is already readily available in commercial computing clouds such as the Amazon Open Data portal and the Microsoft Planetary Computer, or can be accessed directly without downloading, or downloaded to any server with suitable bandwidth and storage space. The high-performance techniques for local and remote access are described in https://duckdb.org/why_duckdb and https://arrow.apache.org/docs/r/articles/fs.html respectively.

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Downloading Supplementary Data from Published Manuscripts

William D. Pearse
Description

Downloads data supplementary materials from manuscripts, using papers DOIs as references. Facilitates open, reproducible research workflows: scientists re-analyzing published datasets can work with them as easily as if they were stored on their own computer, and others can track their analysis workflow painlessly. The main function suppdata() returns a (temporary) location on the users computer where the file is stored, making it simple to use suppdata() with standard functions like read.csv().

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Scientific use cases
  1. D Pearse, W., & A Chamberlain, S. (2018). Suppdata: Downloading Supplementary Data from Published Manuscripts. Journal of Open Source Software, 3(25), 721. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.00721

Find, Download and Process MODIS Land Products Data

Luigi Ranghetti
Description

Allows automating the creation of time series of rasters derived from MODIS satellite land products data. It performs several typical preprocessing steps such as download, mosaicking, reprojecting and resizing data acquired on a specified time period. All processing parameters can be set using a user-friendly GUI. Users can select which layers of the original MODIS HDF files they want to process, which additional quality indicators should be extracted from aggregated MODIS quality assurance layers and, in the case of surface reflectance products, which spectral indexes should be computed from the original reflectance bands. For each output layer, outputs are saved as single-band raster files corresponding to each available acquisition date. Virtual files allowing access to the entire time series as a single file are also created. Command-line execution exploiting a previously saved processing options file is also possible, allowing users to automatically update time series related to a MODIS product whenever a new image is available. For additional documentation refer to the following article: Busetto and Ranghetti (2016) doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2016.08.020.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Busetto, L., & Ranghetti, L. (2016). MODIStsp : An R package for automatic preprocessing of MODIS Land Products time series. Computers & Geosciences, 97, 40–48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2016.08.020
  2. Bellón, B., Bégué, A., Lo Seen, D., de Almeida, C., & Simões, M. (2017). A Remote Sensing Approach for Regional-Scale Mapping of Agricultural Land-Use Systems Based on NDVI Time Series. Remote Sensing, 9(6), 600. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9060600
  3. Hurtado, L. A., Calzada, J. E., Rigg, C. A., Castillo, M., & Chaves, L. F. (2018). Climatic fluctuations and malaria transmission dynamics, prior to elimination, in Guna Yala, República de Panamá. Malaria Journal, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-018-2235-3
  4. Ranghetti, L., Cardarelli, E., Boschetti, M., Busetto, L., & Fasola, M. (2018). Assessment of Water Management Changes in the Italian Rice Paddies from 2000 to 2016 Using Satellite Data: A Contribution to Agro-Ecological Studies. Remote Sensing, 10(3), 416. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10030416
  5. Bellón, B., Bégué, A., Lo Seen, D., Lebourgeois, V., Evangelista, B. A., Simões, M., & Demonte Ferraz, R. P. (2018). Improved regional-scale Brazilian cropping systems’ mapping based on a semi-automatic object-based clustering approach. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 68, 127–138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2018.01.019
  6. Manfron, G., Delmotte, S., Busetto, L., Hossard, L., Ranghetti, L., Brivio, P. A., & Boschetti, M. (2017). Estimating inter-annual variability in winter wheat sowing dates from satellite time series in Camargue, France. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 57, 190–201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2017.01.001
  7. Araya, S., Ostendorf, B., Lyle, G., & Lewis, M. (2018). CropPhenology: An R package for extracting crop phenology from time series remotely sensed vegetation index imagery. Ecological Informatics, 46, 45–56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2018.05.006
  8. Adisa, O., Botai, J., Hassen, A., Darkey, D., Adeola, A., Tesfamariam, E., … Adisa, A. (2018). Variability of Satellite Derived Phenological Parameters across Maize Producing Areas of South Africa. Sustainability, 10(9), 3033. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10093033
  9. Granell, C., Miralles, I., Rodríguez-Pupo, L., González-Pérez, A., Casteleyn, S., Busetto, L., … Huerta, J. (2017). Conceptual Architecture and Service-Oriented Implementation of a Regional Geoportal for Rice Monitoring. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 6(7), 191. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi6070191
  10. Boschetti, M., Busetto, L., Manfron, G., Laborte, A., Asilo, S., Pazhanivelan, S., & Nelson, A. (2017). PhenoRice: A method for automatic extraction of spatio-temporal information on rice crops using satellite data time series. Remote Sensing of Environment, 194, 347–365. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.03.029
  11. Nutini, F., Stroppiana, D., Busetto, L., Bellingeri, D., Corbari, C., Mancini, M., … Boschetti, M. (2017). A Weekly Indicator of Surface Moisture Status from Satellite Data for Operational Monitoring of Crop Conditions. Sensors, 17(6), 1338. https://doi.org/10.3390/s17061338
  12. Moura, M. M., dos Santos, A. R., Pezzopane, J. E. M., Alexandre, R. S., da Silva, S. F., Pimentel, S. M., … de Carvalho, J. R. (2019). Relation of El Niño and La Niña phenomena to precipitation, evapotranspiration and temperature in the Amazon basin. Science of The Total Environment, 651, 1639–1651. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.09.242
  13. Hurtado, L., Rigg, C., Calzada, J., Dutary, S., Bernal, D., Koo, S., & Chaves, L. (2018). Population Dynamics of Anopheles albimanus (Diptera: Culicidae) at Ipetí-Guna, a Village in a Region Targeted for Malaria Elimination in Panamá. Insects, 9(4), 164. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects9040164
  14. Sodnomov, B. V., Ayurzhanaev, A. A., Tsydypov, B. Z., Garmaev, E. Z., & Tulokhonov, A. K. (2018). Software for analysis of vegetation indices dynamics. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 211, 012083. https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/211/1/012083
  15. Marcos, B., Gonçalves, J., Alcaraz-Segura, D., Cunha, M., & Honrado, J. P. (2019). Improving the detection of wildfire disturbances in space and time based on indicators extracted from MODIS data: a case study in northern Portugal. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 78, 77–85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2018.12.003
  16. Rigg, C. A., Hurtado, L. A., Calzada, J. E., & Chaves, L. F. (2019). Malaria infection rates in Anopheles albimanus (Diptera: Culicidae) at Ipetí-Guna, a village within a region targeted for malaria elimination in Panamá. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 69, 216–223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2019.02.003
  17. Nghiem, J., Potter, C., & Baiman, R. (2019). Detection of Vegetation Cover Change in Renewable Energy Development Zones of Southern California Using MODIS NDVI Time Series Analysis, 2000 to 2018. Environments, 6(4), 40. https://doi.org/10.3390/environments6040040
  18. Marcos, B., Gonçalves, J., Alcaraz-Segura, D., Cunha, M., & Honrado, J. P. (2019). Improving the detection of wildfire disturbances in space and time based on indicators extracted from MODIS data: a case study in northern Portugal. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 78, 77-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2018.12.003
  19. Bhattarai, N., Mallick, K., Stuart, J., Vishwakarma, B. D., Niraula, R., Sen, S., & Jain, M. (2019). An automated multi-model evapotranspiration mapping framework using remotely sensed and reanalysis data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 229, 69–92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.04.026
  20. Adeola, A. M., Botai, J. O., Mukarugwiza Olwoch, J., DeW. Rautenbach, H. C. J., Adisa, O. M., De Jager, C., … Aaron, M. (2019). Predicting malaria cases using remotely sensed environmental variables in Nkomazi, South Africa. Geospatial Health, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2019.676
  21. Nelli, L., Ferguson, H. M., & Matthiopoulos, J. (2019). Achieving explanatory depth and spatial breadth in infectious disease modelling: Integrating active and passive case surveillance. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 096228021985638. https://doi.org/10.1177/0962280219856380
  22. Verstraeten, W. W., Dujardin, S., Hoebeke, L., Bruffaerts, N., Kouznetsov, R., Dendoncker, N., … Delcloo, A. W. (2019). Spatio-temporal monitoring and modelling of birch pollen levels in Belgium. Aerobiologia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10453-019-09607-w
  23. Yoo, B. H., Kim, K. S., & Lee, J. (2019). MODIS 대기자료를 활용한 남북한 기상관측소에서의 냉방도일 추정. 한국농림기상학회지, 21(2), 97–109. https://doi.org/10.5532/KJAFM.2019.21.2.97
  24. Mpandeli, S., Nhamo, L., Moeletsi, M., Masupha, T., Magidi, J., Tshikolomo, K., … Mabhaudhi, T. (2019). Assessing climate change and adaptive capacity at local scale using observed and remotely sensed data. Weather and Climate Extremes, 26, 100240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2019.100240
  25. Badreldin, N., Abu Hatab, A., & Lagerkvist, C.-J. (2019). Spatiotemporal dynamics of urbanization and cropland in the Nile Delta of Egypt using machine learning and satellite big data: implications for sustainable development. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 191(12). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-019-7934-x
  26. Estrada-Peña, A., Nava, S., Tarragona, E., Bermúdez, S., de la Fuente, J., Domingos, A., … Guglielmone, A. A. (2019). Species occurrence of ticks in South America, and interactions with biotic and abiotic traits. Scientific Data, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0314-0
  27. Fatikhunnada, A., Liyantono, Solahudin, M., Buono, A., Kato, T., & Seminar, K. B. (2020). Assessment of pre-treatment and classification methods for Java paddy field cropping pattern detection on MODIS images. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 17, 100281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2019.100281
  28. Akpoti, K., Kabo-bah, A. T., Dossou-Yovo, E. R., Groen, T. A., & Zwart, S. J. (2020). Mapping suitability for rice production in inland valley landscapes in Benin and Togo using environmental niche modeling. Science of The Total Environment, 709, 136165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.136165
  29. Pérez-Goya, U., Montesino-SanMartin, M., Militino, A. F., & Ugarte, M. D. (2020). RGISTools: Downloading, Customizing, and Processing Time Series of Remote Sensing Data in R. arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.01859 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.01859.pdf
  30. Barela, I., Burger, L. M., Taylor, J., Evans, K. O., Ogawa, R., McClintic, L., & Wang, G. (2020). Relationships between survival and habitat suitability of semi‐aquatic mammals. Ecology and Evolution, 10(11), 4867–4875. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6239
  31. Nguyen, C. T., Nguyen, D. T. H., & Phan, D. K. (2020). Factors affecting urban electricity consumption: a case study in the Bangkok Metropolitan Area using an integrated approach of earth observation data and data analysis. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-09157-6
  32. Fernández-Ruiz, N., & Estrada-Peña, A. (2020). Could climate trends disrupt the contact rates between Ixodes ricinus (Acari, Ixodidae) and the reservoirs of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l.? PLOS ONE, 15(5), e0233771. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233771
  33. Liu, L., Huang, J., Xiong, Q., Zhang, H., Song, P., Huang, Y., … Wang, X. (2020). Optimal MODIS data processing for accurate multi-year paddy rice area mapping in China. GIScience & Remote Sensing, 57(5), 687–703. https://doi.org/10.1080/15481603.2020.1773012
  34. Anton, C. B., Smith, D. W., Suraci, J. P., Stahler, D. R., Duane, T. P., & Wilmers, C. C. (2020). Gray wolf habitat use in response to visitor activity along roadways in Yellowstone National Park. Ecosphere, 11(6). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3164
  35. Jayawardhana, W. G. N. N., & Chathurange, V. M. I. (2020). Investigate the sensitivity of the satellite-based agricultural drought indices to monitor the drought condition of paddy and introduction to enhanced multi-temporal agricultural drought indices. J Remote Sens GIS, 9, 271. https://www.longdom.org/open-access/investigate-the-sensitivity-of-the-satellitebased-agricultural-drought-indices-to-monitor-the-drought-condition-of-paddy.pdf
  36. Da Silva Abel, E. L., Delgado, R. C., Vilanova, R. S., Teodoro, P. E., da Silva Junior, C. A., Abreu, M. C., & Silva, G. F. C. (2020). Environmental dynamics of the Juruá watershed in the Amazon. Environment, Development and Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-020-00890-z
  37. Gutiérrez-Hernández, O. (2020). Fenología de los ecosistemas de alta montaña en Andalucía: Análisis de la tendencia estacional del SAVI (2000-2019). Pirineos, 175, 055. https://doi.org/10.3989/pirineos.2020.175005
  38. Estrada-Peña, A., D’Amico, G., & Fernández-Ruiz, N. (2020). Modelling the potential spread of Hyalomma marginatum ticks in Europe by migratory birds. International Journal for Parasitology. doi:10.1016/j.ijpara.2020.08.004
  39. De Andrade, C. F., Delgado, R. C., Barbosa, M. L. F., Teodoro, P. E., Junior, C. A. da S., Wanderley, H. S., & Capristo-Silva, G. F. (2020). Fire regime in Southern Brazil driven by atmospheric variation and vegetation cover. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 295, 108194. doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108194
  40. Sao, D., Kato, T., Tu, L. H., Thouk, P., Fitriyah, A., & Oeurng, C. (2020). Evaluation of Different Objective Functions Used in the SUFI-2 Calibration Process of SWAT-CUP on Water Balance Analysis: A Case Study of the Pursat River Basin, Cambodia. Water, 12(10), 2901. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12102901
  41. Chaves, L. F., & Friberg, M. D. (2021). Aedes albopictus and Aedes flavopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) pre-imaginal abundance patterns are associated with different environmental factors along an altitudinal gradient. Current Research in Insect Science, 1, 100001. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cris.2020.100001
  42. De Andrade, M. D., Delgado, R. C., da Costa de Menezes, S. J. M., de Ávila Rodrigues, R., Teodoro, P. E., da Silva Junior, C. A., & Pereira, M. G. (2021). Evaluation of the MOD11A2 product for canopy temperature monitoring in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 193(1). doi:10.1007/s10661-020-08788-z
  43. Akpoti, K., Dossou-Yovo, E. R., Zwart, S. J., & Kiepe, P. (2021). The potential for expansion of irrigated rice under alternate wetting and drying in Burkina Faso. Agricultural Water Management, 247, 106758. doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2021.106758

An API Client for the Environmental Data Initiative Repository

Colin Smith
Description

A client for the Environmental Data Initiative repository REST API. The EDI data repository https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/home.jsp is for publication and reuse of ecological data with emphasis on metadata accuracy and completeness. It is built upon the PASTA+ software stack https://pastaplus-core.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html# and was developed in collaboration with the US LTER Network https://lternet.edu/. EDIutils includes functions to search and access existing data, evaluate and upload new data, and assist other data management tasks common to repository users.

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rrricanes
Peer-reviewed

Web Scraper for Atlantic and East Pacific Hurricanes and Tropical Storms

Elin Waring
Description

Get archived data of past and current hurricanes and tropical storms for the Atlantic and eastern Pacific oceans. Data is available for storms since 1998. Datasets are updated via the rrricanesdata package. Currently, this package is about 6MB of datasets. See the README or view vignette("drat") for more information.

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rglobi
CRAN

Interface to Global Biotic Interactions

Jorrit Poelen
Description

A programmatic interface to the web service methods provided by Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/). GloBI provides access to spatial-temporal species interaction records from sources all over the world. rglobi provides methods to search species interactions by location, interaction type, and taxonomic name.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Vincent, F., & Bowler, C. (2020). Diatoms Are Selective Segregators in Global Ocean Planktonic Communities. mSystems, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00444-19
  2. Wiscovitch-Russo, R., Rivera-Perez, J., Narganes-Storde, Y. M., García-Roldán, E., Bunkley-Williams, L., Cano, R., & Toranzos, G. A. (2020). Pre-Columbian zoonotic enteric parasites: An insight into Puerto Rican indigenous culture diets and life styles. PLOS ONE, 15(1), e0227810. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227810
eph
CRAN

Argentina's Permanent Household Survey Data and Manipulation Utilities

Carolina Pradier
Description

Tools to download and manipulate the Permanent Household Survey from Argentina (EPH is the Spanish acronym for Permanent Household Survey). e.g: get_microdata() for downloading the datasets, get_poverty_lines() for downloading the official poverty baskets, calculate_poverty() for the calculation of stating if a household is in poverty or not, following the official methodology. organize_panels() is used to concatenate observations from different periods, and organize_labels() adds the official labels to the data. The implemented methods are based on INDEC (2016) http://www.estadistica.ec.gba.gov.ar/dpe/images/SOCIEDAD/EPH_metodologia_22_pobreza.pdf. As this package works with the argentinian Permanent Household Survey and its main audience is from this country, the documentation was written in Spanish.

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chromer
CRAN

Interface to Chromosome Counts Database API

Karl W Broman
Description

A programmatic interface to the Chromosome Counts Database (https://ccdb.tau.ac.il/), Rice et al. (2014) doi:10.1111/nph.13191. This package is part of the ROpenSci suite (https://ropensci.org).

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Scientific use cases
  1. Zenil-Ferguson, R., Ponciano, J. M., & Burleigh, J. G. (2017). Testing the association of phenotypes with polyploidy: An example using herbaceous and woody eudicots. Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13226
  2. Rivero, R., Sessa, E. B., & Zenil-Ferguson, R. (2019). EyeChrom and CCDBcurator: Visualizing chromosome count data from plants. Applications in Plant Sciences, e01207. https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.1207
  3. Han, T., Zheng, Q., Onstein, R. E., Rojas‐Andrés, B. M., Hauenschild, F., Muellner‐Riehl, A. N., & Xing, Y. (2019). Polyploidy promotes species diversification of Allium through ecological shifts. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16098
  4. Carta, A., Bedini, G., & Peruzzi, L. (2020). A deep dive into the ancestral chromosome number of flowering plants. bioRxiv preprint. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.05.893859
awardFindR
Peer-reviewed

awardFindR

Michael McCall
Description

Queries a number of scientific awards databases. Collects relevant results based on keyword and date parameters, returns list of projects that fit those criteria as a data frame. Sources include: Arnold Ventures, Carnegie Corp, Federal RePORTER, Gates Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Mellon Foundation, NEH, NIH, NSF, Open Philanthropy, Open Society Foundations, Rockefeller Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Sloan Foundation, Social Science Research Council, John Templeton Foundation, and USASpending.gov.

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weathercan
Peer-reviewed

Download Weather Data from Environment and Climate Change Canada

Steffi LaZerte
Description

Provides means for downloading historical weather data from the Environment and Climate Change Canada website (https://climate.weather.gc.ca/historical_data/search_historic_data_e.html). Data can be downloaded from multiple stations and over large date ranges and automatically processed into a single dataset. Tools are also provided to identify stations either by name or proximity to a location.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Konzen, E., Shi, J. Q., & Wang, Z. (2019). Modelling Function-Valued Processes with Nonseparable Covariance Structure. arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.09981. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.09981.pdf
  2. Hanes, C., Wotton, M., Woolford, D. G., Martell, D. L., & Flannigan, M. (2020). Preceding Fall Drought Conditions and Overwinter Precipitation Effects on Spring Wildland Fire Activity in Canada. Fire, 3(2), 24. https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/3/2/24/pdf
  3. Parent, S.-É., Lafond, J., Paré, M. C., Parent, L. E., & Ziadi, N. (2020). Conditioning Machine Learning Models to Adjust Lowbush Blueberry Crop Management to the Local Agroecosystem. Plants, 9(10), 1401. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9101401
  4. Layton, K. K. S., Snelgrove, P. V. R., Dempson, J. B., Kess, T., Lehnert, S. J., Bentzen, P., … Bradbury, I. R. (2021). Genomic evidence of past and future climate-linked loss in a migratory Arctic fish. Nature Climate Change, 11(2), 158–165. doi:10.1038/s41558-020-00959-7

Download and Parse Public Data Released by B3 Exchange

Wilson Freitas
Description

Download and parse public files released by B3 and convert them into useful formats and data structures common to data analysis practitioners.

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Read EPUB File Metadata and Text

Matthew Leonawicz
Description

Provides functions supporting the reading and parsing of internal e-book content from EPUB files. The epubr package provides functions supporting the reading and parsing of internal e-book content from EPUB files. E-book metadata and text content are parsed separately and joined together in a tidy, nested tibble data frame. E-book formatting is not completely standardized across all literature. It can be challenging to curate parsed e-book content across an arbitrary collection of e-books perfectly and in completely general form, to yield a singular, consistently formatted output. Many EPUB files do not even contain all the same pieces of information in their respective metadata. EPUB file parsing functionality in this package is intended for relatively general application to arbitrary EPUB e-books. However, poorly formatted e-books or e-books with highly uncommon formatting may not work with this package. There may even be cases where an EPUB file has DRM or some other property that makes it impossible to read with epubr. Text is read as is for the most part. The only nominal changes are minor substitutions, for example curly quotes changed to straight quotes. Substantive changes are expected to be performed subsequently by the user as part of their text analysis. Additional text cleaning can be performed at the users discretion, such as with functions from packages like tm or qdap'.

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bold
CRAN

Interface to Bold Systems API

Salix Dubois
Description

A programmatic interface to the Web Service methods provided by Bold Systems (http://www.boldsystems.org/) for genetic barcode data. Functions include methods for searching by sequences by taxonomic names, ids, collectors, and institutions; as well as a function for searching for specimens, and downloading trace files.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Hassall, C., Owen, J., & Gilbert, F. (2016). Phenological shifts in hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae): linking measurement and mechanism. Ecography. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.02623
  2. Bowser, M., Morton, J., Hanson, J., Magness, D., & Okuly, M. (2017). Arthropod and oligochaete assemblages from grasslands of the southern Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Biodiversity Data Journal, 5, e10792. https://doi.org/10.3897/bdj.5.e10792
  3. Divoll, T. J., Brown, V. A., Kinne, J., McCracken, G. F., & O’Keefe, J. M. (2018). Disparities in second-generation DNA metabarcoding results exposed with accessible and repeatable workflows. Molecular Ecology Resources. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.12770
  4. Cravens, Z. M., Brown, V. A., Divoll, T. J., & Boyles, J. G. (2017). Illuminating prey selection in an insectivorous bat community exposed to artificial light at night. Journal of Applied Ecology, 55(2), 705–713. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13036
  5. Collins, R. A., Bakker, J., Wangensteen, O. S., Soto, A. Z., Corrigan, L., Sims, D. W., … Mariani, S. (2019). Non‐specific amplification compromises environmental DNA metabarcoding with COI. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.13276
  6. Piper, A. M., Batovska, J., Cogan, N. O. I., Weiss, J., Cunningham, J. P., Rodoni, B. C., & Blacket, M. J. (2019). Prospects and challenges of implementing DNA metabarcoding for high-throughput insect surveillance. GigaScience, 8(8). https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giz092
  7. Arranz, V., Pearman, W. S., Aguirre, J. D., & Liggins, L. (2020). MARES, a replicable pipeline and curated reference database for marine eukaryote metabarcoding. Scientific Data, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0549-9
  8. Wilkes, M. A., Edwards, F., Jones, J. I., Murphy, J. F., England, J., Friberg, N., … Brown, L. E. (2020). Trait‐based ecology at large scales: Assessing functional trait correlations, phylogenetic constraints and spatial variability using open data. Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15344
  9. Sigsgaard, E. E., Olsen, K., Hansen, M. D. D., Hansen, O. L. P., Høye, T. T., Svenning, J., & Thomsen, P. F. (2020). Environmental DNA metabarcoding of cow dung reveals taxonomic and functional diversity of invertebrate assemblages. Molecular Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15734
  10. Batovska, J., Piper, A., Valenzuela, I., Cunningham, J., & Blacket, M. (2020). Developing a Non-destructive Metabarcoding Protocol for Detection of Pest Insects in Bulk Trap Catches. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-125070/v1

Access Data from the NASS Quick Stats API

Nicholas Potter
Description

Interface to access data via the United States Department of Agricultures National Agricultural Statistical Service (NASS) Quick Stats’ web API https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/api/. Convenience functions facilitate building queries based on available parameters and valid parameter values. This product uses the NASS API but is not endorsed or certified by NASS.

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An R package to download São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro air pollution data

Mario Gavidia-Calderón
Description

A package to download information from CETESB QUALAR https://cetesb.sp.gov.br/ar/qualar/ and MonitorAr http://jeap.rio.rj.gov.br/je-metinfosmac/institucional/index.html systems. It contains function to download different parameters, a set of criteria pollutants and the most frequent meteorological parameters used in air quality data analysis and air quality model evaluation.

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rsnps

Get SNP (Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism) Data on the Web

Julia Gustavsen
Description

A programmatic interface to various SNP datasets on the web: OpenSNP (https://opensnp.org), and NBCIs dbSNP database (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/SNP/). Functions are included for searching for NCBI. For OpenSNP, functions are included for getting SNPs, and data for genotypes, phenotypes, annotations, and bulk downloads of data by user.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Mackinnon, M. J., Ndila, C., Uyoga, S., Macharia, A., Snow, R. W., Band, G., et al. (2016). Environmental Correlation Analysis for Genes Associated with Protection against Malaria. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 33(5), 1188–1204. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msw004
  2. Roy, A., Ghosal, S., & Choudhury, K. R. (2017). High dimensional Single Index Bayesian Modeling of the Brain Atrophy over time. arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.06743. https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.06743
  3. Amiri Roudbar, M., Mohammadabadi, M. R., Ayatollahi Mehrgardi, A., Abdollahi-Arpanahi, R., Momen, M., Morota, G., … Rosa, G. J. M. (2020). Integration of single nucleotide variants and whole-genome DNA methylation profiles for classification of rheumatoid arthritis cases from controls. Heredity, 124(5), 658–674. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-020-0301-4

Automated Phylogenetic Sequence Cluster Identification from GenBank

Shixiang Wang
Description

A pipeline for the identification, within taxonomic groups, of orthologous sequence clusters from GenBank https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/ as the first step in a phylogenetic analysis. The pipeline depends on a local alignment search tool and is, therefore, not dependent on differences in gene naming conventions and naming errors.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Evans, K. M., Vidal-García, M., Tagliacollo, V. A., Taylor, S. J., & Fenolio, D. B. (2019). Bony Patchwork: Mosaic Patterns of Evolution in the Skull of Electric Fishes (Apteronotidae: Gymnotiformes). Integrative and Comparative Biology. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icz026
  2. Ruiz-Sanchez, E., Maya-Lastra, C. A., Steinmann, V. W., Zamudio, S., Carranza, E., Murillo, R. M., & Rzedowski, J. (2019). Datataxa: a new script to extract metadata sequence information from GenBank, the Flora of Bajío as a case study. Botanical Sciences, 97(4), 754–760. https://doi.org/10.17129/botsci.2226
  3. Crespo, L. C., Silva, I., Enguídanos, A., Cardoso, P., & Arnedo, M. A. (2020). Integrative taxonomic revision of the woodlouse-hunter spider genus Dysdera (Araneae: Dysderidae) in the Madeira archipelago with notes on its conservation status. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org./10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa089
tradestatistics
CRAN Peer-reviewed

Open Trade Statistics API Wrapper and Utility Program

Mauricio Vargas
Description

Access Open Trade Statistics API from R to download international trade data.

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photosearcher

Photo Searcher

Nathan Fox
Description

Queries the Flick API (https://www.flickr.com/services/api/) to return photograph metadata as well as the ability to download the images as jpegs.

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Scientific use cases
  1. August, T. A., Pescott, O. L., Joly, A., & Bonnet, P. (2020). AI Naturalists Might Hold the Key to Unlocking Biodiversity Data in Social Media Imagery. Patterns, 1(7), 100116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2020.100116

Access the Global Plant Phenology Data Portal

John Deck
Description

Search plant phenology data aggregated from several sources and available on the Global Plant Phenology Data Portal.

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Interface to the Open Tree of Life API

Francois Michonneau
Description

An interface to the Open Tree of Life API to retrieve phylogenetic trees, information about studies used to assemble the synthetic tree, and utilities to match taxonomic names to Open Tree identifiers. The Open Tree of Life aims at assembling a comprehensive phylogenetic tree for all named species.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Michonneau, F., Brown, J. W., & Winter, D. J. (2016). rotl: an R package to interact with the Open Tree of Life data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.12593
  2. Killen, S. S., Norin, T., & Halsey, L. G. (2016). Do method and species lifestyle affect measures of maximum metabolic rate in fishes? Journal of Fish Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.13195
  3. Estrada-Peña, A., & de la Fuente, J. (2016). Species interactions in occurrence data for a community of tick-transmitted pathogens. Scientific Data, 3, 160056. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.56
  4. Matthews, A. E., Klimov, P. B., Proctor, H. C., Dowling, A. P. G., Diener, L., Hager, S. B., … Boves, T. J. (2017). Cophylogenetic assessment of New World warblers (Parulidae) and their symbiotic feather mites (Proctophyllodidae). Journal of Avian Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.01580
  5. Santorelli, S., Magnusson, W. E., & Deus, C. P. (2018). Most species are not limited by an Amazonian river postulated to be a border between endemism areas. Scientific Reports, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-20596-7
  6. Farquharson, K. A., Hogg, C. J., & Grueber, C. E. (2018). A meta-analysis of birth-origin effects on reproduction in diverse captive environments. Nature Communications, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03500-9
  7. Portugal, S. J., & White, C. R. (2018). Miniaturisation of biologgers is not alleviating the 5% rule. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.13013
  8. Barneche, D. R., Robertson, D. R., White, C. R., & Marshall, D. J. (2018). Fish reproductive-energy output increases disproportionately with body size. Science, 360(6389), 642–645. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aao6868
  9. Morais, R. A., & Bellwood, D. R. (2018). Global drivers of reef fish growth. Fish and Fisheries. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12297
  10. Gastauer, M., Caldeira, C. F., Trotter, I., Ramos, S. J., & Neto, J. A. A. M. (2018). Optimizing community trees using the open tree of life increases the reliability of phylogenetic diversity and dispersion indices. Ecological Informatics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2018.06.008
  11. Paseka, R. E., & Grunberg, R. L. (2018). Allometric and trait-based patterns in parasite stoichiometry. Oikos. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.05339
  12. Barneche, D. R., Burgess, S. C., & Marshall, D. J. (2018). Global environmental drivers of marine fish egg size. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27(8), 890–898. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12748
  13. Merkling, T., Nakagawa, S., Lagisz, M., & Schwanz, L. E. (2017). Maternal Testosterone and Offspring Sex-Ratio in Birds and Mammals: A Meta-Analysis. Evolutionary Biology, 45(1), 96–104. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-017-9432-9
  14. Becker, D., Czirják, G., Rynda-Apple, A., & Plowright, R. (2018). Handling stress and sample storage are associated with weaker complement-mediated bactericidal ability in birds but not bats. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. https://doi.org/10.1086/701069
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  16. Tresch, S., Frey, D., Le Bayon, R.-C., Zanetta, A., Rasche, F., Fliessbach, A., & Moretti, M. (2018). Litter decomposition driven by soil fauna, plant diversity and soil management in urban gardens. Science of The Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.235
  17. Green, D. M. (2019). Rarity of Size-Assortative Mating in Animals: Assessing the Evidence with Anuran Amphibians. The American Naturalist, 193(2) https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/701124
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  20. Halsey, L. G., & White, C. R. (2019). Terrestrial locomotion energy costs vary considerably between species: no evidence that this is explained by rate of leg force production or ecology. Scientific Reports, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-36565-z
  21. Ohmer, M. E. B., Cramp, R. L., White, C. R., Harlow, P. S., McFadden, M. S., Merino-Viteri, A., … Franklin, C. E. (2019). Phylogenetic investigation of skin sloughing rates in frogs: relationships with skin characteristics and disease-driven declines. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(1896), 20182378. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2378
  22. Shefferson, R. P., Bunch, W., Cowden, C. C., Lee, Y., Kartzinel, T. R., Yukawa, T., … Jiang, H. (2019). Does evolutionary history determine specificity in broad ecological interactions? Journal of Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13170
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  35. Estrada-Peña, A., Nava, S., Tarragona, E., Bermúdez, S., de la Fuente, J., Domingos, A., … Guglielmone, A. A. (2019). Species occurrence of ticks in South America, and interactions with biotic and abiotic traits. Scientific Data, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0314-0
  36. Godfrey, J. M., Riggio, J., Orozco, J., Guzmán‐Delgado, P., Chin, A. R. O., & Zwieniecki, M. A. (2020). Ray fractions and carbohydrate dynamics of tree species along a 2750 m elevation gradient indicate climate response, not spatial storage limitation. New Phytologist, 225(6), 2314–2330. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16361
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  38. Shan, S., Soltis, P. S., Soltis, D. E., & Yang, B. (2020). Considerations in adapting CRISPR/Cas9 in nongenetic model plant systems. Applications in Plant Sciences, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11314
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  42. Finoshin, A. D., Adameyko, K. I., Mikhailov, K. V., Kravchuk, O. I., Georgiev, A. A., Gornostaev, N. G., … Lyupina, Y. V. (2020). Iron metabolic pathways in the processes of sponge plasticity. PLOS ONE, 15(2), e0228722. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228722
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Get Texts from the Perseus Digital Library

David Ranzolin
Description

The Perseus Digital Library is a collection of classical texts. This package helps you get them. The available works can also be viewed here: http://cts.perseids.org/.

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R Interface to FishBase

Carl Boettiger
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.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Drozd, P., & Šipoš, J. (2013). R for all (I): Introduction to the new age of biological analyses. Casopis Slezskeho Zemskeho Muzea A, 62(1). https://doi.org/10.2478/cszma-2013-0004
  2. Froehlich, H. E., Gentry, R. R., & Halpern, B. S. (2016). Synthesis and comparative analysis of physiological tolerance and life-history growth traits of marine aquaculture species. Aquaculture, 460, 75–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2016.04.018
  3. McGee, M. D., Borstein, S. R., Neches, R. Y., Buescher, H. H., Seehausen, O., & Wainwright, P. C. (2015). A pharyngeal jaw evolutionary innovation facilitated extinction in Lake Victoria cichlids. Science, 350(6264), 1077–1079. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aab0800
  4. Plank, M. J., Pitchford, J. W., & James, A. (2016). Evolutionarily Stable Strategies for Fecundity and Swimming Speed of Fish. Bull Math Biol, 78(2), 280–292. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-016-0143-7
  5. Price, S. A., Friedman, S. T., & Wainwright, P. C. (2015). How predation shaped fish: the impact of fin spines on body form evolution across teleosts. Proc. R. Soc. B, 282(1819), 20151428. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1428
  6. Sagouis, A., Cucherousset, J., Villéger, S., Santoul, F., & Boulêtreau, S. (2015). Non-native species modify the isotopic structure of freshwater fish communities across the globe. Ecography, 38(10), 979–985. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.01348
  7. Boeger, W. A., Marteleto, F. M., Zagonel, L., & Braga, M. P. (2014). Tracking the history of an invasion: the freshwater croakers (Teleostei: Sciaenidae) in South America. Zool Scr, 44(3), 250–262. https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12098
  8. Mindel, B. L., Webb, T. J., Neat, F. C., & Blanchard, J. L. (2016). A trait-based metric sheds new light on the nature of the body size-depth relationship in the deep sea. J Anim Ecol, 85(2), 427–436. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12471
  9. Miya, M., Friedman, M., Satoh, T. P., Takeshima, H., Sado, T., Iwasaki, W., … Nishida, M. (2013). Evolutionary Origin of the Scombridae (Tunas and Mackerels): Members of a Paleogene Adaptive Radiation with 14 Other Pelagic Fish Families. PLoS ONE, 8(9), e73535. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0073535
  10. Price, S. A., Claverie, T., Near, T. J., & Wainwright, P. C. (2015). Phylogenetic insights into the history and diversification of fishes on reefs. Coral Reefs, 34(4), 997–1009. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-015-1326-7
  11. Collins, R. A., Britz, R., & Rüber, L. (2015). Phylogenetic systematics of leaffishes - Teleostei: Polycentridae, Nandidae. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 53(4), 259–272. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12103
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dataaimsr
Peer-reviewed

AIMS Data Platform API Client

Diego R. Barneche
Description

AIMS Data Platform API Client which provides easy access to AIMS Data Platform scientific data and information.

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Base de Datos de Facil Acceso del Censo 2017 de Chile (2017 Chilean Census Easy Access Database)

Mauricio Vargas
Description

Provee un acceso conveniente a mas de 17 millones de registros de la base de datos del Censo 2017. Los datos fueron importados desde el DVD oficial del INE usando el Convertidor REDATAM creado por Pablo De Grande. Esta paquete esta documentado intencionalmente en castellano asciificado para que funcione sin problema en diferentes plataformas. (Provides convenient access to more than 17 million records from the Chilean Census 2017 database. The datasets were imported from the official DVD provided by the Chilean National Bureau of Statistics by using the REDATAM converter created by Pablo De Grande and in addition it includes the maps accompanying these datasets.)

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onekp

Retrieve Data from the 1000 Plants Initiative (1KP)

Dhakal Rijan
Description

The 1000 Plants Initiative (www.onekp.com) has sequenced the transcriptomes of over 1000 plant species. This package allows these sequences and metadata to be retrieved and filtered by code, species or recursively by clade. Scientific names and NCBI taxonomy IDs are both supported.

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clifro
CRAN

Easily Download and Visualise Climate Data from CliFlo

Blake Seers
Description

CliFlo is a web portal to the New Zealand National Climate Database and provides public access (via subscription) to around 6,500 various climate stations (see https://cliflo.niwa.co.nz/ for more information). Collating and manipulating data from CliFlo (hence clifro) and importing into R for further analysis, exploration and visualisation is now straightforward and coherent. The user is required to have an internet connection, and a current CliFlo subscription (free) if data from stations, other than the public Reefton electronic weather station, is sought.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Chambault, P., Baudena, A., Bjorndal, K. A., AR Santos, M., Bolten, A. B., & Vandeperre, F. (2019). Swirling in the ocean: immature loggerhead turtles seasonally target old anticyclonic eddies at the fringe of the North Atlantic gyre. Progress in Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2019.05.005
  2. Atalah, J., & Forrest, B. (2019). Forecasting mussel settlement using historical data and boosted regression trees. Aquaculture Environment Interactions, 11, 625–638. https://doi.org/10.3354/aei00337
EndoMineR
Peer-reviewed

Functions to mine endoscopic and associated pathology datasets

Sebastian Zeki
Description

This script comprises the functions that are used to clean up endoscopic reports and pathology reports as well as many of the scripts used for analysis. The scripts assume the endoscopy and histopathology data set is merged already but it can also be used of course with the unmerged datasets.

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Acquisition and Processing of NASA Soil Moisture Active-Passive (SMAP) Data

Maxwell Joseph
Description

Facilitates programmatic access to NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) data with R. It includes functions to search for, acquire, and extract SMAP data.

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R Interface to the Species+ Database

Kevin Cazelles
Description

A programmatic interface to the Species+ https://speciesplus.net/ database via the Species+/CITES Checklist API https://api.speciesplus.net/.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Geschke, J., Cazelles, K., & Bartomeus, I. (2018). rcites: An R package to access the CITES Speciesplus database. Journal of Open Source Software, 3(31), 1091. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01091
  2. Hierink, F., Bolon, I., Durso, A. M., Ruiz de Castañeda, R., Zambrana-Torrelio, C., Eskew, E. A., & Ray, N. (2020). Forty-four years of global trade in CITES-listed snakes: Trends and implications for conservation and public health. Biological Conservation, 248, 108601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108601

Downloads and Organizes Financial Data from Yahoo Finance

Marcelo Perlin
Description

Facilitates download of financial data from Yahoo Finance https://finance.yahoo.com/, a vast repository of stock price data across multiple financial exchanges. The package offers a local caching system and support for parallel computation.

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rdryad
CRAN

Access for Dryad Web Services

Scott Chamberlain
Description

Interface to the Dryad “Solr” API, their “OAI-PMH” service, and fetch datasets. Dryad (https://datadryad.org/) is a curated host of data underlying scientific publications.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Drozd, P., & Šipoš, J. (2013). R for all (I): Introduction to the new age of biological analyses. Casopis Slezskeho Zemskeho Muzea A, 62(1). https://doi.org/10.2478/cszma-2013-0004
  2. White, L., & Santy, S. (2018). DataDepsGenerators.jl: making reusing data easy by automatically generating DataDeps.jl registration code. Journal of Open Source Software, 3(31), 921. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.00921
  3. Manning, F., Curtis, P. J., Walker, I., & Pither, J. (2020, June 2). An experimental test of the capacity for long-distance dispersal of freshwater diatoms adhering to waterfowl plumage. https://doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/h97pw

API Client for CHIRPS and CHIRTS

Kauê de Sousa
Description

API Client for the Climate Hazards Center CHIRPS and CHIRTS. The CHIRPS data is a quasi-global (50°S – 50°N) high-resolution (0.05 arc-degrees) rainfall data set, which incorporates satellite imagery and in-situ station data to create gridded rainfall time series for trend analysis and seasonal drought monitoring. CHIRTS is a quasi-global (60°S – 70°N), high-resolution data set of daily maximum and minimum temperatures. For more details on CHIRPS and CHIRTS data please visit its official home page https://www.chc.ucsb.edu/data.

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helminthR
CRAN

Access London Natural History Museum Host-Helminth Record Database

Tad Dallas
Description

Access to large host-parasite data is often hampered by the availability of data and difficulty in obtaining it in a programmatic way to encourage analyses. helminthR provides a programmatic interface to the London Natural History Museum’s host-parasite database, one of the largest host-parasite databases existing currently https://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/scientific-resources/taxonomy-systematics/host-parasites/. The package allows the user to query by host species, parasite species, and geographic location.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Dallas, T., & Cornelius, E. (2015). Co-extinction in a host-parasite network: identifying key hosts for network stability. Scientific Reports, 5, 13185. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep13185
  2. Singh, S. K. (2017). Evaluating two freely available geocoding tools for geographical inconsistencies and geocoding errors. Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40965-017-0026-3
  3. Mulder, C. (2017). Pathogenic helminths in the past: Much ado about nothing. F1000Research, 6, 852. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.11752.1
brranching

Fetch Phylogenies from Many Sources

Luna L Sanchez Reyes
Description

Includes methods for fetching phylogenies from a variety of sources, including the Phylomatic web service (http://phylodiversity.net/phylomatic/), and Phylocom (https://github.com/phylocom/phylocom/).

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Scientific use cases
  1. Mayor, J. R., Sanders, N. J., Classen, A. T., Bardgett, R. D., Clément, J.-C., Fajardo, A., et al. (2017). Elevation alters ecosystem properties across temperate treelines globally. Nature, 542(7639), 91–95. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature21027
  2. Giroldo, A. B., Scariot, A., & Hoffmann, W. A. (2017). Trait shifts associated with the subshrub life-history strategy in a tropical savanna. Oecologia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-017-3930-4
  3. Van de Peer, T., Mereu, S., Verheyen, K., María Costa Saura, J., Morillas, L., Roales, J., … Muys, B. (2018). Tree seedling vitality improves with functional diversity in a Mediterranean common garden experiment. Forest Ecology and Management, 409, 614–633. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2017.12.001
  4. Bemmels, J. B., Wright, S. J., Garwood, N. C., Queenborough, S. A., Valencia, R., & Dick, C. W. (2018). Filter-dispersal assembly of lowland Neotropical rainforests across the Andes. Ecography. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03473
  5. Gastauer, M., Caldeira, C. F., Trotter, I., Ramos, S. J., & Neto, J. A. A. M. (2018). Optimizing community trees using the open tree of life increases the reliability of phylogenetic diversity and dispersion indices. Ecological Informatics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2018.06.008
  6. Albert, S., Flores, O., Rouget, M., Wilding, N., & Strasberg, D. (2018). Why are woody plants fleshy-fruited at low elevations? Evidence from a high-elevation oceanic island. Journal of Vegetation Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12676
  7. Gill, B. A., Musili, P. M., Kurukura, S., Hassan, A. A., Goheen, J. R., Kress, W. J., … Kartzinel, T. R. (2019). Plant DNA-barcode library and community phylogeny for a semi-arid East African savanna. Molecular Ecology Resources. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13001
  8. Redmond, M. D., Morris, T. L., & Cramer, M. C. (2019). The cost of standing tall: wood nutrients associated with tree invasions in nutrient‐poor fynbos soils of South Africa. Ecosphere, 10(9). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2831
  9. Vidal, M. C., Quinn, T. W., Stireman, J. O., Tinghitella, R. M., & Murphy, S. M. (2019). Geography is more important than host plant use for the population genetic structure of a generalist insect herbivore. Molecular Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15218
  10. Bohner, T., & Diez, J. (2019). Extensive mismatches between species distributions and performance and their relationship to functional traits. Ecology Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13396
  11. Roddy, A. B., Théroux-Rancourt, G., Abbo, T., Benedetti, J. W., Brodersen, C. R., Castro, M., … Simonin, K. A. (2019). The Scaling of Genome Size and Cell Size Limits Maximum Rates of Photosynthesis with Implications for Ecological Strategies. International Journal of Plant Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1086/706186>
  12. Herrera, C. M. (2020). Flower traits, habitat, and phylogeny as predictors of pollinator service: a plant community perspective. Ecological Monographs. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1402
  13. Théroux-Rancourt, G., Roddy, A. B., Earles, J. M., Gilbert, M. E., Zwieniecki, M. A., Boyce, C. K., … Brodersen, C. R. (2020). Maximum CO2 diffusion inside leaves is limited by the scaling of cell size and genome size. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.16.904458
  14. Larson, J. E., Anacker, B. L., Wanous, S., & Funk, J. L. (2020). Ecological strategies begin at germination: Traits, plasticity and survival in the first 4 days of plant life. Functional Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13543
  15. Trugman, A. T., Anderegg, L. D. L., Shaw, J. D., & Anderegg, W. R. L. (2020). Trait velocities reveal that mortality has driven widespread coordinated shifts in forest hydraulic trait composition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(15), 8532–8538. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917521117
  16. Santana, V. M., Alday, J. G., Adamo, I., Alloza, J. A., & Baeza, M. J. (2020). Climate, and not fire, drives the phylogenetic clustering of species with hard-coated seeds in Mediterranean Basin communities. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 45, 125545. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ppees.2020.125545
  17. Perez, T. M., & Feeley, K. J. (2020). Weak phylogenetic and climatic signals in plant heat tolerance. Journal of Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13984
  18. Huang, M., Ding, L., Wang, J., Ding, C., & Tao, J. (2021). The impacts of climate change on fish growth: A summary of conducted studies and current knowledge. Ecological Indicators, 121, 106976. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.10697
  19. Huang, M., Ding, L., Wang, J., Ding, C., & Tao, J. (2021). The impacts of climate change on fish growth: A summary of conducted studies and current knowledge. Ecological Indicators, 121, 106976. doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106976
  20. Perez, T. M., Socha, A., Tserej, O., & Feeley, K. J. (2021). Photosystem II heat tolerances characterize thermal generalists and the upper limit of carbon assimilation. Plant, Cell & Environment. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.13990
neotoma

Access to the Neotoma Paleoecological Database Through R

Simon J. Goring
Description

NOTE: This package is deprecated. Please use the neotoma2 package described at https://github.com/NeotomaDB/neotoma2. Access paleoecological datasets from the Neotoma Paleoecological Database using the published API (http://wnapi.neotomadb.org/), only containing datasets uploaded prior to June 2020. The functions in this package access various pre-built API functions and attempt to return the results from Neotoma in a usable format for researchers and the public.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Nanavati, W. P., Whitlock, C., Iglesias, V., & de Porras, M. E. (2019). Postglacial vegetation, fire, and climate history along the eastern Andes, Argentina and Chile (lat. 41–55°S). Quaternary Science Reviews, 207, 145–160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.01.014
  2. Wang, Y., Goring, S. J., & McGuire, J. L. (2019). Bayesian ages for pollen records since the last glaciation in North America. Scientific Data, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0182-7
  3. Elmslie, B. G., Gushulak, C. A., Boreux, M. P., Lamoureux, S. F., Leavitt, P. R., & Cumming, B. F. (2019). Complex responses of phototrophic communities to climate warming during the Holocene of northeastern Ontario, Canada. The Holocene, 095968361988301. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683619883014
  4. Deza-Araujo, M., Morales-Molino, C., Tinner, W., Henne, P. D., Heitz, C., Pezzatti, G. B., … Conedera, M. (2020). A critical assessment of human-impact indices based on anthropogenic pollen indicators. Quaternary Science Reviews, 236, 106291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106291
  5. Carroll, H. M., Wanamaker, A. D., Clark, L. G., & Wilsey, B. J. (2020). Ragweed and sagebrush pollen can distinguish between vegetation types at broad spatial scales. Ecosphere, 11(5). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3120
  6. Fastovich, D., Russell, J. M., Jackson, S. T., Krause, T. R., Marcott, S. A., & Williams, J. W. (2020). Spatial Fingerprint of Younger Dryas Cooling and Warming in Eastern North America. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020gl090031
  7. Chevalier, M., Davis, B. A. S., Heiri, O., Seppä, H., Chase, B. M., Gajewski, K., … Kupriyanov, D. (2020). Pollen-based climate reconstruction techniques for late Quaternary studies. Earth-Science Reviews, 210, 103384. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103384
  8. Byun, E., Sato, H., Cowling, S. A., & Finkelstein, S. A. (2020). Extensive wetland development in mid-latitude North America during the Bølling–Allerød. Nature Geoscience, 14(1), 30–35. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-00670-4
  9. Teale, C., & Chang, J. (2021). Fabaceae (legume) pollen as an anthropogenic indicator in eastern North America. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. doi:10.1007/s00334-020-00815-w

Accesses Weather Data from the Iowa Environment Mesonet

Maëlle Salmon
Description

Allows to get weather data from Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) stations (airports) in the whole world thanks to the Iowa Environment Mesonet website.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Hagerman, A. D., South, D. D., Sondgerath, T. C., Patyk, K. A., Sanson, R. L., Schumacher, R. S., … Magzamen, S. (2018). Temporal and geographic distribution of weather conditions favorable to airborne spread of foot-and-mouth disease in the coterminous United States. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 161, 41–49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2018.10.016
  2. Milà, C., Curto, A., Dimitrova, A., Sreekanth, V., Kinra, S., Marshall, J. D., & Tonne, C. (2020). Identifying predictors of personal exposure to air temperature in peri-urban India. Science of The Total Environment, 707, 136114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.136114
pangaear
CRAN

Client for the Pangaea Database

Scott Chamberlain
Description

Tools to interact with the Pangaea Database (https://www.pangaea.de), including functions for searching for data, fetching datasets by dataset ID, and working with the Pangaea OAI-PMH service.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Greco, M., Jonkers, L., Kretschmer, K., Bijma, J., & Kucera, M. (2019). Depth habitat of the planktonic foraminifera Neogloboquadrina pachyderma in the northern high latitudes explained by sea-ice and chlorophyll concentrations. Biogeosciences, 16(17), 3425–3437. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-3425-2019

Access the U.S. National Provider Identifier Registry API

Frank Farach
Description

Access the United States National Provider Identifier Registry API https://npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov/api/. Obtain and transform administrative data linked to a specific individual or organizational healthcare provider, or perform advanced searches based on provider name, location, type of service, credentials, and other attributes exposed by the API.

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rredlist
CRAN

IUCN Red List Client

William Gearty
Description

IUCN Red List (http://apiv3.iucnredlist.org/api/v3/docs) client. The IUCN Red List is a global list of threatened and endangered species. Functions cover all of the Red List API routes. An API key is required.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Cardoso P (2017) red - an R package to facilitate species red list assessments according to the IUCN criteria. Biodiversity Data Journal 5: e20530. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e20530
  2. Moat, J., Bachman, S. P., Field, R., & Boyd, D. S. (2018). Refining area of occupancy to address the modifiable areal unit problem in ecology and conservation. Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13139
  3. Lusseau, D., & Mancini, F. (2018). A global assessment of tourism and recreation conservation threats to prioritise interventions. arXiv preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08399
  4. Van de Perre, F., Leirs, H., & Verheyen, E. (2019). Paleoclimate, ecoregion size, and degree of isolation explain regional biodiversity differences among terrestrial vertebrates within the Congo Basin. Belgian Journal of Zoology, 149(1). https://doi.org/10.26496/bjz.2019.28
  5. Alhajeri, B. H., & Fourcade, Y. (2019). High correlation between species‐level environmental data estimates extracted from IUCN expert range maps and from GBIF occurrence data. Journal of Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13619
  6. Nyboer, E. A., Liang, C., & Chapman, L. J. (2019). Assessing the vulnerability of Africa’s freshwater fishes to climate change: A continent-wide trait-based analysis. Biological Conservation, 236, 505–520. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.05.003
  7. Grattarola, F., Botto, G., da Rosa, I., Gobel, N., González, E., González, J., … Pincheira-Donoso, D. (2019). Biodiversidata: An Open-Access Biodiversity Database for Uruguay. Biodiversity Data Journal, 7. https://doi.org/10.3897/bdj.7.e36226
  8. Lennox, R. J., Veríssimo, D., Twardek, W. M., Davis, C. R., & Jarić, I. (2019). Sentiment analysis as a measure of conservation culture in scientific literature. Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13404
  9. Dawson, A., Paciorek, C. J., Goring, S. J., Jackson, S. T., McLachlan, J. S., & Williams, J. W. (2019). Quantifying trends and uncertainty in prehistoric forest composition in the upper Midwestern United States. Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2856
  10. Bager Olsen, M. T., Geldmann, J., Harfoot, M., Tittensor, D. P., Price, B., Sinovas, P., … Burgess, N. D. (2019). Thirty-six years of legal and illegal wildlife trade entering the USA. Oryx, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0030605319000541
  11. Scheffers, B. R., Oliveira, B. F., Lamb, I., & Edwards, D. P. (2019). Global wildlife trade across the tree of life. Science, 366(6461), 71–76. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aav5327
  12. Stévart, T., Dauby, G., Lowry, P. P., Blach-Overgaard, A., Droissart, V., Harris, D. J., … Couvreur, T. L. P. (2019). A third of the tropical African flora is potentially threatened with extinction. Science Advances, 5(11), eaax9444. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax9444
  13. Cooke, R. S. C., Eigenbrod, F., & Bates, A. E. (2020). Ecological distinctiveness of birds and mammals at the global scale. Global Ecology and Conservation, 22, e00970. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e00970
  14. Ji, Y., Baker, C. C., Li, Y., Popescu, V. D., Wang, Z., Wang, J., … Yu, D. W. (2020). Large-scale Quantification of Vertebrate Biodiversity in Ailaoshan Nature Reserve from Leech iDNA. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.10.941336
  15. Becker, D. J., & Han, B. A. (2020). The macroecology and evolution of avian competence for Borrelia burgdorferi. bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.15.040352
  16. Greenville, A. C., Newsome, T. M., Wardle, G. M., Dickman, C. R., Ripple, W. J., & Murray, B. R. (2020). Simultaneously operating threats cannot predict extinction risk. Conservation Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12758
  17. Mothes, C. C., Stemle, L. R., Fonseca, T. N., Clements, S. L., Howell, H. J., & Searcy, C. A. (2020). Protect or perish: Quantitative analysis of state‐level species protection supports preservation of the Endangered Species Act. Conservation Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12761
  18. Alhajeri, B. H., Fourcade, Y., Upham, N. S., & Alhaddad, H. (2020). A global test of Allen’s rule in rodents. Global Ecology and Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13198
  19. Etard, A., Morrill, S., & Newbold, T. (2020). Global gaps in trait data for terrestrial vertebrates. Global Ecology and Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13184
  20. Alò, D., Lacy, S. N., Castillo, A., Samaniego, H. A., & Marquet, P. A. (2020). The macroecology of fish migration. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30(1), 99–116. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13199
  21. Murgier, J., McLean, M., Maire, A., Mouillot, D., Loiseau, N., Munoz, F., … Auber, A. (2021). Rebound in functional distinctiveness following warming and reduced fishing in the North Sea. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288(1942), 20201600. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1600
  22. DE LA TORRE, G. M., & CAMPIÃO, K. M. (2021). Bird habitat preferences drive hemoparasite infection in the Neotropical region. Integrative Zoology. doi:10.1111/1749-4877.12515

Generates Networks from BTS Data

Filipe Teixeira
Description

A flexible tool that allows generating bespoke air transport statistics for urban studies based on publicly available data from the Bureau of Transport Statistics (BTS) in the United States https://www.transtats.bts.gov/databases.asp?Z1qr_VQ=E&Z1qr_Qr5p=N8vn6v10&f7owrp6_VQF=D.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Teixeira, F., & Derudder, B. (2018). SKYNET: An R package for generating air passenger networks for urban studies. Urban Studies, 004209801880325. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098018803258
  2. Teixeira, F. M., & Derudder, B. (2021). Spatio-temporal dynamics in airport catchment areas: The case of the New York Multi Airport Region. Journal of Transport Geography, 90, 102916. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2020.102916
exoplanets
Peer-reviewed

Access NASA's Exoplanet Archive Data

Tyler Littlefield
Description

The goal of exoplanets is to provide access to NASA’s Exoplanet Archive TAP Service. For more information regarding the API please read the documentation https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/index.html.

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traits
CRAN

Species Trait Data from Around the Web

David LeBauer
Description

Species trait data from many different sources, including sequence data from NCBI (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/), plant trait data from BETYdb, data from EOL Traitbank, Birdlife International, and more.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Michonneau, F., Brown, J. W., & Winter, D. J. (2016). rotl: an R package to interact with the Open Tree of Life data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.12593
  2. LeBauer, D., Kooper, R., Mulrooney, P., Rohde, S., Wang, D., Long, S. P., & Dietze, M. C. (2017). BETYdb: a yield, trait, and ecosystem service database applied to second‐generation bioenergy feedstock production. GCB Bioenergy. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12420

Antarctic Geographic Place Names

Ben Raymond
Description

Antarctic geographic names from the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica, and functions for working with those place names.

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Querying and Managing Large Biodiversity Occurrence Datasets

Hannah L. Owens
Description

Facilitates the gathering of biodiversity occurrence data from disparate sources. Metadata is managed throughout the process to facilitate reporting and enhanced ability to repeat analyses.

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epair

EPA Data Helper for R

G.L. Orozco-Mulfinger
Description

Aid the user in making queries to the EPA API site found at https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/documents/data_api. This package combines API calling methods from various web scraping packages with specific strings to retrieve data from the EPA API. It also contains easy to use loaded variables that help a user navigate services offered by the API and aid the user in determining the appropriate way to make a an API call.

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Hydrological Data Discovery Tools

Dorothea Hug Peter
Description

Tools to discover hydrological data, accessing catalogues and databases from various data providers. The package is described in Vitolo (2017) “hddtools: Hydrological Data Discovery Tools” doi:10.21105/joss.00056.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Zheng, X., Kottas, A., & Sansó, B. (2020). On Construction and Estimation of Stationary Mixture Transition Distribution Models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.12696 https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.12696.
wateRinfo
Peer-reviewed

Download Time Series Data from Waterinfo.be

Stijn Van Hoey
Description

wateRinfo facilitates access to waterinfo.be (https://www.waterinfo.be), a website managed by the Flanders Environment Agency (VMM) and Flanders Hydraulics Research. The website provides access to real-time water and weather related environmental variables for Flanders (Belgium), such as rainfall, air pressure, discharge, and water level. The package provides functions to search for stations and variables, and download time series.

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Interface to the CAVD DataSpace

Jason Taylor
Description

Provides a convenient API interface to access immunological data within the CAVD DataSpace(https://dataspace.cavd.org), a data sharing and discovery tool that facilitates exploration of HIV immunological data from pre-clinical and clinical HIV vaccine studies.

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rinat
CRAN

Access iNaturalist Data Through APIs

Stéphane Guillou
Description

A programmatic interface to the API provided by the iNaturalist website https://www.inaturalist.org/ to download species occurrence data submitted by citizen scientists.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Milanesi, P., Mori, E., & Menchetti, M. (2020). Observer‐oriented approach improves species distribution models from citizen science data. Ecology and Evolution, 10(21), 12104–12114. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6832

Access Nomis UK Labour Market Data

Evan Odell
Description

Access UK official statistics from the Nomis database. Nomis includes data from the Census, the Labour Force Survey, DWP benefit statistics and other economic and demographic data from the Office for National Statistics, based around statistical geographies. See https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/api/v01/help for full API documentation.

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rdataretriever
CRAN

R Interface to the Data Retriever

Henry Senyondo
Description

Provides an R interface to the Data Retriever https://retriever.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ via the Data Retriever’s command line interface. The Data Retriever automates the tasks of finding, downloading, and cleaning public datasets, and then stores them in a local database.

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Download Data from the Catchment Data Explorer Website

Rob Briers
Description

Facilitates searching, download and plotting of Water Framework Directive (WFD) reporting data for all waterbodies within the UK Environment Agency area. The types of data that can be downloaded are: WFD status classification data, Reasons for Not Achieving Good (RNAG) status, objectives set for waterbodies, measures put in place to improve water quality and details of associated protected areas. The site accessed is https://environment.data.gov.uk/catchment-planning/. The data are made available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.

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DoOR.data
Peer-reviewed

A DoOR to the Complete Olfactome

Daniel Münch
Description

This is a data package providing Drosophila odorant response data for DoOR.functions. See URLs for the original and the DoOR 2.0 publications.

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Download Data from the European Social Survey on the Fly

Jorge Cimentada
Description

Download data from the European Social Survey directly from their website http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/. There are two families of functions that allow you to download and interactively check all countries and rounds available.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Buil-Gil, D. (2020). Small Area Estimation for Crime Analysis. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/gtbyu
  2. Życzyńska-Ciołek, D., & Kołczyńska, M. (2020). Does Interviewers’ Age Affect Their Assessment of Respondents’ Understanding of Survey Questions? Evidence From the European Social Survey. International Journal of Public Opinion Research. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edaa015
historydata
CRAN

Datasets for Historians

Lincoln Mullen
Description

These sample data sets are intended for historians learning R. They include population, institutional, religious, military, and prosopographical data suitable for mapping, quantitative analysis, and network analysis.

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USAboundaries

Historical and Contemporary Boundaries of the United States of America

Lincoln Mullen
Description

The boundaries for geographical units in the United States of America contained in this package include state, county, congressional district, and zip code tabulation area. Contemporary boundaries are provided by the U.S. Census Bureau (public domain). Historical boundaries for the years from 1629 to 2000 are provided form the Newberry Librarys Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (licensed CC BY-NC-SA). Additional data is provided in the USAboundariesData’ package; this package provides an interface to access that data.

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USAboundariesData

Datasets for the USAboundaries package

Lincoln Mullen
Description

Contains datasets, including higher resolution boundary data, for use in the USAboundaries package. These datasets come from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Newberry Librarys Historical Atlas of U.S. County Boundaries, and Erik Steiners United States Historical City Populations, 1790-2010.

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rusda
CRAN

Interface to USDA Databases

Franz-Sebastian Krah
Description

An interface to the web service methods provided by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) provides a large set of databases. The current version of the package holds interfaces to the Systematic Mycology and Microbiology Laboratory (SMML), which consists of four databases: Fungus-Host Distributions, Specimens, Literature and the Nomenclature database. It provides functions for querying these databases. The main function is \codeassociations, which allows searching for fungus-host combinations.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Krah, F.-S., Bässler, C., Heibl, C., Soghigian, J., Schaefer, H., & Hibbett, D. S. (2018). Evolutionary dynamics of host specialization in wood-decay fungi. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-018-1229-7
rWBclimate

A package for accessing World Bank climate data

Edmund Hart
Description

This package will download model predictions from 15 different global circulation models in 20 year intervals from the world bank. Users can also access historical data, and create maps at 2 different spatial scales.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Charalampopoulos, I. (2020). The R Language as a Tool for Biometeorological Research. Atmosphere, 11(7), 682. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11070682
rentrez
CRAN

Entrez in R

David Winter
Description

Provides an R interface to the NCBIs EUtils API, allowing users to search databases like GenBank https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/ and PubMed’ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/, process the results of those searches and pull data into their R sessions.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Drozd, P., & Šipoš, J. (2013). R for all (I): Introduction to the new age of biological analyses. Casopis Slezskeho Zemskeho Muzea A, 62(1). https://doi.org/10.2478/cszma-2013-0004
  2. Hampton, S. E., Anderson, S. S., Bagby, S. C., Gries, C., Han, X., Hart, E. M., et al. (2015). The Tao of open science for ecology. Ecosphere, 6(7), art120. https://doi.org/10.1890/es14-00402.1
  3. Nguyen, N. T., Zhang, X., Wu, C., Lange, R. A., Chilton, R. J., Lindsey, M. L., & Jin, Y.-F. (2014). Integrative Computational and Experimental Approaches to Establish a Post-Myocardial Infarction Knowledge Map. PLoS Computational Biology, 10(3), e1003472. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003472
  4. Lee, Y. Y., Foster, E. D., Polley, D. E., & Odell, J. Using the ‘rentrez’ R Package to Identify Repository Records for NCBI LinkOut. Code4lib Journal. http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/12792
  5. Winter, D. J. (2017). rentrez: An R package for the NCBI eUtils API (Version 1). PeerJ Preprints. https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3179v1
  6. Krawczyk, P. S., Lipinski, L., & Dziembowski, A. (2018). PlasFlow: predicting plasmid sequences in metagenomic data using genome signatures. Nucleic Acids Research. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkx1321
  7. Claypool, K., & Patel, C. J. (2018). A transcript-wide association study in physical activity intervention implicates molecular pathways in chronic disease. https://doi.org/10.1101/260398
  8. Chen, L., Heikkinen, L., Wang, C., Yang, Y., Knott, K. E., & Wong, G. (2018). miRToolsGallery: a tag-based and rankable microRNA bioinformatics resources database portal. Database, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1093/database/bay004
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internetarchive

An API Client for the Internet Archive

Lincoln Mullen
Description

Search the Internet Archive (https://archive.org), retrieve metadata, and download files.

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rgpdd

R Interface to the Global Population Dynamics Database

Carl Boettiger
Description

R Interface to the Global Population Dynamics Database (https://ecologicaldata.org/wiki/global-population-dynamics-database)

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cRegulome
Peer-reviewed

Obtain and Visualize Regulome-Gene Expression Correlations in Cancer

Mahmoud Ahmed
Description

Builds a SQLite database file of pre-calculated transcription factor/microRNA-gene correlations (co-expression) in cancer from the Cistrome Cancer Liu et al. (2011) doi:10.1186/gb-2011-12-8-r83 and miRCancerdb databases (in press). Provides custom classes and functions to query, tidy and plot the correlation data.

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  1. Ahmed, M., Nguyen, H., Lai, T., & Kim, D. R. (2018). miRCancerdb: a database for correlation analysis between microRNA and gene expression in cancer. BMC Research Notes, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3160-9
rfisheries
CRAN

Programmatic Interface to the openfisheries.org API

Karthik Ram
Description

A programmatic interface to openfisheries.org. This package is part of the rOpenSci suite (https://ropensci.org).

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  1. Drozd, P., & Šipoš, J. (2013). R for all (I): Introduction to the new age of biological analyses. Casopis Slezskeho Zemskeho Muzea A, 62(1). https://doi.org/10.2478/cszma-2013-0004
rrricanesdata
Peer-reviewed

Data for Atlantic and east Pacific tropical cyclones since 1998

Tim Trice
Description

Includes storm discussions, forecast/advisories, public advisories, wind speed probabilities, strike probabilities and more. This package can be used along with rrricanes (>= 0.2.0-6). Data is considered public domain via the National Hurricane Center.

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Download and Read RAM Legacy Stock Assessment Database

Kshitiz Gupta
Description

Contains functions to download, cache and read in Excel version of the RAM Legacy Stock Assessment Data Base, an online compilation of stock assessment results for commercially exploited marine populations from around the world. The database is named after Dr. Ransom A. Myers whose original stock-recruitment database, is no longer being updated. More information about the database can be found at https://ramlegacy.org/. Ricard, D., Minto, C., Jensen, O.P. and Baum, J.K. (2012) doi:10.1111/j.1467-2979.2011.00435.x.

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Client for CAMS Radiation Service

Lukas Lundstrom
Description

Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) Radiation Service provides time series of global, direct, and diffuse irradiations on horizontal surface, and direct irradiation on normal plane for the actual weather conditions as well as for clear-sky conditions. The geographical coverage is the field-of-view of the Meteosat satellite, roughly speaking Europe, Africa, Atlantic Ocean, Middle East. The time coverage of data is from 2004-02-01 up to 2 days ago. Data are available with a time step ranging from 15 min to 1 month. For license terms and to create an account, please see http://www.soda-pro.com/web-services/radiation/cams-radiation-service.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Yang, D. (2019). Making reference solar forecasts with climatology, persistence, and their optimal convex combination. Solar Energy, 193, 981–985. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2019.10.006
  2. Yagli, G. M., Yang, D., Gandhi, O., & Srinivasan, D. (2019). Can we justify producing univariate machine-learning forecasts with satellite-derived solar irradiance? Applied Energy, 114122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.114122
  3. Yang, D. (2020). Choice of clear-sky model in solar forecasting. Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 12(2), 026101. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0003495
  4. Yang, D., & Bright, J. M. (2020). Worldwide validation of 8 satellite-derived and reanalysis solar radiation products: A preliminary evaluation and overall metrics for hourly data over 27 years. Solar Energy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2020.04.016
  5. Meng, B., Loonen, R. C. G. M., & Hensen, J. L. M. (2020). Data-driven inference of unknown tilt and azimuth of distributed PV systems. Solar Energy, 211, 418–432. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2020.09.077

Popler R Package

Compagnoni Aldo
Description

Browse and query the popler database.

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