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rnbn (version 1.1.2)

Access NBN Data

Description

Access to data held by the National Biodiversity Network (NBN, www.nbn.org.uk). The NBN acts as a data warehouse for biological records data in the UK and is the UK node of GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility). In this package NBN data is accessed via its web-services.

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install.packages('rnbn')

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1.1.2

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Last Published

January 12th, 2017

Functions in rnbn (1.1.2)

getFeature

Get details for a given feature
getOccurrences

Get occurrences for a given species
getTaxonomy

Get the taxonomical heirarchy for a given taxon
createWKT

Create polygon from point
datasetTaxa

Get a list of taxa present in a given dataset
gr2gps_latlon

Covert grid reference to latitude and longitude
getGroupSpeciesTVKs

Gets TVKs for a group
getTVKQuery

Gets TVKs for a query
datePart

Extract element from a vague date
dataProviders

Get data providers
listVCs

Get list of vice-counties
listOrganisations

Get organisation definitions
nbnLogin

Get Login credentials for NBN access
gridRef

Manipulate OSGB or OSNI grid reference string
gridCoords

Get x,y coordinates from a grid reference
makenbnurl

Build the URL to call NBN web-services
rnbn-package

Access data from the NBN
listGroups

Get group definitions
listDatasets

Get Dataset definitions
runnbnurl

Run the constructed url and get data