R client for various sources of species trait data.
Docs: https://docs.ropensci.org/traits/
What is a trait? A “trait” for the purposes of this package is broadly defined as an aspect of a species that can be described or measured, such as physical traits (size, length, height, color), behavioral traits (running speed, etc.), and even variables that make up the niche of the species (e.g., habitat).
Included in traits
with the associated function prefix
or function name:
Souce | Function prefix | Link |
---|---|---|
BETYdb |
betydb_
|
https://www.betydb.org/ |
NCBI |
ncbi_
|
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ |
Encylopedia of Life |
traitbank_
|
https://github.com/EOL/eol_website/blob/master/doc/api.md |
Birdlife International |
birdlife_
|
https://www.birdlife.org/ |
LEDA Traitbase |
leda_
|
|
Zanne et al. plant dataset |
tr_zanne
|
|
Amniote life history dataset |
tr_ernest
|
Talk to us on the issues page (https://github.com/ropensci/traits/issues) if you know of a source of traits data with an API, and we’ll see about including it.
Stable CRAN version
install.packages("traits")
Or development version from GitHub
::install_github("ropensci/traits") remotes
library("traits")
library("dplyr")
traits
in R doing
citation(package = 'traits')