Interface to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility API

A programmatic interface to the Web Service methods provided by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF; < https://www.gbif.org/developer/summary>). GBIF is a database of species occurrence records from sources all over the globe. rgbif includes functions for searching for taxonomic names, retrieving information on data providers, getting species occurrence records, getting counts of occurrence records, and using the GBIF tile map service to make rasters summarizing huge amounts of data.

'Webdriver'/'Selenium' Binary Manager

There are a number of binary files associated with the 'Webdriver'/'Selenium' project. This package provides functions to download these binaries and to manage processes involving them.

A Binary Download Manager

Tools and functions for managing the download of binary files. Binary repositories are defined in 'YAML' format. Defining new pre-download, download and post-download templates allow additional repositories to be added.

Taxonomic Information from Around the Web

Interacts with a suite of web application programming interfaces (API) for taxonomic tasks, such as getting database specific taxonomic identifiers, verifying species names, getting taxonomic hierarchies, fetching downstream and upstream taxonomic names, getting taxonomic synonyms, converting scientific to common names and vice versa, and more. Some of the services supported include 'NCBI E-utilities' (< https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25501/>), 'Encyclopedia of Life' (< https://eol.org/docs/what-is-eol/data-services>), 'Global Biodiversity Information Facility' (< https://techdocs.gbif.org/en/openapi/>), and many more. Links to the API documentation for other supported services are available in the documentation for their respective functions in this package.

R Interface to 'Apache Tika'

Extract text or metadata from over a thousand file types, using Apache Tika < https://tika.apache.org/>. Get either plain text or structured XHTML content.

Downloads and Organizes Financial Data from Yahoo Finance

Facilitates download of financial data from Yahoo Finance < https://finance.yahoo.com/>, a vast repository of stock price data across multiple financial exchanges. The package offers a local caching system and support for parallel computation.

R Client Package for Circle CI

Tools for interacting with the 'Circle CI' API (< https://circleci.com/docs/api/v2/>). Besides executing common tasks such as querying build logs and restarting builds, this package also helps setting up permissions to deploy from builds.

Interface to the Greek National Data Bank for Hydrometeorological Information

R interface to the Greek National Data Bank for Hydrological and Meteorological Information. It covers Hydroscope's data sources and provides functions to transliterate, translate and download them into tidy dataframes.

Download Data from the European Social Survey on the Fly

Download data from the European Social Survey directly from their website < http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/>. There are two families of functions that allow you to download and interactively check all countries and rounds available.

Manage Data from Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing

Import, process, summarize and visualize raw data from metabolic carts. See Robergs, Dwyer, and Astorino (2010) for more details on data processing.