Collecting Twitter Data

An implementation of calls designed to collect and organize Twitter data via Twitter's REST and stream Application Program Interfaces (API), which can be found at the following URL: < https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs>. This package has been peer-reviewed by rOpenSci (v. 0.6.9).

R Bindings for 'Selenium WebDriver'

Provides a set of R bindings for the 'Selenium 2.0 WebDriver' (see < https://selenium.dev/documentation/en/> for more information) using the 'JsonWireProtocol' (see < https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/JsonWireProtocol> for more information). 'Selenium 2.0 WebDriver' allows driving a web browser natively as a user would either locally or on a remote machine using the Selenium server it marks a leap forward in terms of web browser automation. Selenium automates web browsers (commonly referred to as browsers). Using RSelenium you can automate browsers locally or remotely.

Stubbing and Setting Expectations on 'HTTP' Requests

Stubbing and setting expectations on 'HTTP' requests. Includes tools for stubbing 'HTTP' requests, including expected request conditions and response conditions. Match on 'HTTP' method, query parameters, request body, headers and more. Can be used for unit tests or outside of a testing context.

'Webdriver'/'Selenium' Binary Manager

There are a number of binary files associated with the 'Webdriver'/'Selenium' project (see < http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/>, < https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/>, < https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver>, < http://phantomjs.org/download.html> and < https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver> for more information). This package provides functions to download these binaries and to manage processes involving them.

Bindings for 'Tabula' PDF Table Extractor Library

Bindings for the 'Tabula' < http://tabula.technology/> 'Java' library, which can extract tables from PDF documents. The 'tabulizerjars' package < https://github.com/ropensci/tabulizerjars> provides versioned 'Java' .jar files, including all dependencies, aligned to releases of 'Tabula'.

'Programmatic Interface to the 'openfisheries.org' API'

A programmatic interface to 'openfisheries.org'. This package is part of the 'rOpenSci' suite ( http://ropensci.org).

Interface to Chromosome Counts Database API

A programmatic interface to the Chromosome Counts Database ( http://ccdb.tau.ac.il/). This package is part of the rOpenSci suite ( http://ropensci.org)

Preliminary Visualisation of Data

Create preliminary exploratory data visualisations of an entire dataset to identify problems or unexpected features using 'ggplot2'.

Taxonomic Information from Around the Web

Interacts with a suite of web 'APIs' 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.

Interface to Species Occurrence Data Sources

A programmatic interface to many species occurrence data sources, including Global Biodiversity Information Facility ('GBIF'), 'USGSs' Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation ('BISON'), 'iNaturalist', Berkeley 'Ecoinformatics' Engine, 'eBird', Integrated Digitized 'Biocollections' ('iDigBio'), 'VertNet', Ocean 'Biogeographic' Information System ('OBIS'), and Atlas of Living Australia ('ALA'). Includes functionality for retrieving species occurrence data, and combining those data.