Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) Data and Resources in R

The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) provides tools to enable users of biodiversity information to find, access, combine and visualise data on Australian plants and animals; these have been made available from < https://ala.org.au/>. ALA4R provides a subset of the tools to be directly used within R. It enables the R community to directly access data and resources hosted by the ALA. ALA4R is deprecated and will be removed from CRAN at the end of 2021. The package to replace ALA4R, 'galah', is now available on CRAN < https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=galah>. For an introduction to 'galah', visit the GitHub page < https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/galah>.

ALA4R

ALA4R is deprecated and will be removed from CRAN at the end of 2021. The package to replace ALA4R, galah, is now available on CRAN. galah provides an improved interface to ALA data, while providing the same core functionality as ALA4R. For an introduction to galah, visit the GitHub page.

The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) provides tools to enable users of biodiversity information to find, access, combine and visualise data on Australian plants and animals; these have been made available from https://www.ala.org.au/. Here we provide a subset of the tools to be directly used within R.

ALA4R enables the R community to directly access data and resources hosted by the ALA.

The use-examples presented at the 2014 ALA Science Symposium are available in the package vignette, via (in R): vignette("ALA4R"), or browse it online.

Citing ALA4R

To generate a citation for ALA4R run:

citation(package = "ALA4R")

Installing

Stable version from CRAN:

install.packages("ALA4R")

Or the development version from GitHub:

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("AtlasOfLivingAustralia/ALA4R")

On Linux you will first need to ensure that libcurl and v8 (version <= 3.15) are installed on your system — e.g. on Ubuntu/Debian, open a terminal and do:

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev libv8-3.14-dev

or install via the Software Centre.

Usage

See the online documentation at https://atlasoflivingaustralia.github.io/ALA4R/ including the package vignette.