rAvis

rAvis: an R-package to download the information stored in “proyectoavis”, a citizen science bird project.

Proyectoavis web site

Installation

Stable version from CRAN:

install.packages("rAvis")
library("rAvis")

Install with devtools

In the meantime you can install this development version with devtools package

install.packages("devtools")
library("devtools")
install_github("ropensci/rAvis")
library("rAvis")

Load the library

library("rAvis")

Try some command

Get species observation data

Bubo <- avisQuerySpecies("Bubo bubo")
head(Bubo)

##   Id..Obs. Nombre.comun   Especie     Fecha Numero              Com.Aut
## 1    88274    Búho Real Bubo bubo 20-4-2014      2               Aragón
## 2    87902    Búho Real Bubo bubo 29-3-2014      1               Aragón
## 3    87516    Búho Real Bubo bubo 12-3-2014      1               Aragón
## 4    86733    Búho Real Bubo bubo  3-9-2013      1 Comunidad Valenciana
## 5    86732    Búho Real Bubo bubo  3-9-2013      1 Comunidad Valenciana
## 6    86731    Búho Real Bubo bubo  3-9-2013      1     Región de Murcia
##   Provincia     UTM Observador Periodo     Hora    Edad          Sexo
## 1    Teruel 30TXL41      torri      NA 08:05:00                      
## 2    Teruel 30TXL52      torri      NA 17:30:00                      
## 3    Teruel 30TXL41      torri      NA 17:30:00                      
## 4  Alicante 30SXH80  p.perales      NA 21:00:00  adulto         macho
## 5  Alicante 30SXH80  p.perales      NA 21:03:00 juvenil indeterminado
## 6    Murcia 30SXH80  p.perales      NA 21:00:00  adulto         macho
##                  Interes Grado.Reprod. Categ.Fenol.              Habitat
## 1                                    0            0                     
## 2                                    0            0                     
## 3    reproducción segura            11            0                     
## 4                                   16            3 roquedos de interior
## 5 comportamiento inusual             0            3   terrenos agrícolas
## 6                                   16            3 roquedos de interior
##   Codigo.de.Habitat
## 1                NA
## 2                NA
## 3                NA
## 4                NA
## 5                NA
## 6                NA
##                                                                                    Notas
## 1 barranco la Salobre - RUBIELOS de la CERIDA. DDAK 250m. S.O. 1 adulto y 1 pll al menos
## 2                                  Arroyo de los Calderones - TORRE los NEGROS. Con JMPS
## 3           Rambla del Ramblon  fuente la Salobre - RUBIELOS de la CERIDA. Con SMO y CAL
## 4                                                                                       
## 5                                      Posado sobre poste eléctrico a plena luz del día-
## 6                                                                                       
##         x     y
## 1 -1.2818 40.77
## 2 -1.1609 40.86
## 3 -1.2818 40.77
## 4 -0.8937 37.97
## 5 -0.8937 37.97
## 6 -0.8937 37.97

Render a map

avisMapSpecies("Pica pica")

or with a physical map behind:

avisMapSpecies("Pica pica", "phys")

Disable INFO messages

avisSetup(verbose = FALSE)

See help

Package help for more info

?rAvis

Meta

Please report any issues or bugs](https://github.com/ropensci/rAvis/issues).

License: GPL-2

This package is part of the rOpenSci project.

To cite package rAvis in publications use:

To cite package ‘rAvis’ in publications use:

Javier González Hernández and Sara Varela (2014). rAvis: Interface to the bird-watching datasets at proyectoavis.com. R
package version 0.1.2.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

@Manual{,
title = {rAvis: Interface to the bird-watching datasets at proyectoavis.com},
author = {Javier González Hernández and Sara Varela},
year = {2014},
note = {R package version 0.1.2},
}

ATTENTION: This citation information has been auto-generated from the package DESCRIPTION file and may need manual editing, see
‘help("citation")’.

Get citation information for rAvis in R by citation(package = 'rAvis')