rgbif (version 0.7.0)

gist: Post a file as a Github gist

Description

This function is deprecated. See the package spocc for similar functionality.

You will be asked ot enter you Github credentials (username, password) during each session, but only once for each session. Alternatively, you could enter your credentials into your .Rprofile file with the entries

1. options(github.username = "your_github_username")
2. options(github.password = "your_github_password")

then gist will simply read those options.

gist was modified from code in the rCharts package by Ramnath Vaidyanathan

Usage

gist(gist, description = "", public = TRUE)

Arguments

gist

An object

description

brief description of gist (optional)

public

whether gist is public (default: TRUE)

Value

• Posts your file as a gist on your account, and prints out the url for the gist itself in the console.

Examples

library(plyr)
splist <- c('Accipiter erythronemius', 'Junco hyemalis', 'Aix sponsa')
keys <- sapply(splist, function(x) name_backbone(name=x, kingdom='plants')$speciesKey,
   USE.NAMES=FALSE)
out <- occ_search(keys, hasCoordinate=TRUE, limit=50, return="data")
dat <- ldply(out)
datgeojson <- stylegeojson(input=dat, var="name", color=c("#976AAE","#6B944D","#BD5945"),
   size=c("small","medium","large"))
write.csv(datgeojson, "~/my.csv")
togeojson(input="~/my.csv", method="web", outfilename="my")
gist("~/my.geojson", description = "Occurrences of three bird species mapped")