{"repo":"ropensci/dwctaxon","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/ropensci/dwctaxon","clone":"git clone https://github.com/ropensci/dwctaxon.git","description":"R package for working with Darwin Core Taxon data","language":"R","stars":10,"topics":["database","r-package","rstats"],"license":null,"category":"databases-storage","readme_excerpt":"dwctaxon The goal of dwctaxon is to facilitate working with Darwin Core Taxon data in R. Statement of need dwctaxon facilitates editing and validating Darwin Core Taxon data. There are various reasons one might want to do this. Here is a non-exhaustive list of use-cases for dwctaxon: - To maintain an existing taxonomic database. - To prepare a taxonomic database as a reference for taxonomic name resolution, for example with the taxastand or U.Taxonstand R packages. - To curate taxonomic data as part of a Darwin Core Archive. In theory, dwctaxon could be used to create taxonomic databases from scratch, but it is more likely to be useful for updating and validating existing databases (R in general is more suited to data wrangling and analysis as opposed to data entry). Resources For detailed usage examples, see the vignettes: - What is DwC? - Editing DwC taxon data - Validating DwC taxon data - Real World Example For more information about dwctaxon, in particular for using it to maintain a reference database for taxonomic name resolution, see taxastand and dwctaxon: A pair of R packages for standardizing species names in Darwin Core format (BioDigiCon 2022 talk). Installation The stable version can be installed from CRAN: The development version can be installed from r-universe or github. OR Usage First, load packages and a dataset to work with: dct filmies is a taxonomic dataset of filmy ferns included in dwctaxon. For demonstration purposes, we will just use the first five ro","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/ropensci","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/ropensci/dwctaxon/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}