README-not.md

AntWeb

AntWeb is a repository of ant specimen records maintained by the California Academy of Sciences. From the website's description:

AntWeb is the world's largest online database of images, specimen records, and natural history information on ants. It is community driven and open to contribution from anyone with specimen records, natural history comments, or images.

Resources

• AntWeb
• AntWeb API
• API version 2

Package Status and Installation

Installation Instructions

Stable version

install.packages("AntWeb", dependencies = TRUE)
# version 0.6

Development version

# If you don't already have the devtools package installed, run
# install.packages("devtools")
# unlike most packages, devtools requires additional non-R dependencies depending on your OS. 
# See → https://github.com/ropensci/rOpenSci/wiki/Installing-devtools
library(devtools)
install_github("ropensci/AntWeb", ref = "dev")

Usage

Function name	Description	Example
aw_data	Search for data by taxonomic level, full species name, a bounding box, habitat, elevation or type.	Search by a species name aw_data(scientific_name = "acanthognathus brevicornis") or by a genus crem <- aw_data(genus = "crematogaster") Search by a bounding box aw_data(bbox = '37.77,-122.46,37.76,-122.47') Search by an elevation band aw_data(min_elevation = 1500, max_elevation = 2000)
aw_unique	Obtain a list of unique levels by various taxonomic ranks	aw_unique(rank = "subfamily") genus_list <- aw_unique(rank = "genus") aw_unique(rank = "species")
aw_images	Search photos by type or time since added.	aw_images(since = 5) aw_images(since = 5, type = "h")
aw_coords	Search for specimens by location and radius	aw_coords(coord = "37.76,-122.45", r = 5)
aw_code	Search for a specimen by record number	aw_code(occurrenceid = "CAS:ANTWEB:alas188691")
aw_map	Map georeferenced data	adf <- aw_data(genus = "acanthognathus", georeferenced = TRUE) aw_map(adf)

Citation

To cite package ‘AntWeb’ in publications use:

  'Karthik Ram' (2014). AntWeb: programmatic interface
  to the AntWeb. R package version 0.7.2.99.
  https://github.com/ropensci/AntWeb

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {AntWeb: programmatic interface to the AntWeb},
    author = {'Karthik Ram'},
    year = {2014},
    note = {R package version 0.7.2.99},
    url = {https://github.com/ropensci/AntWeb},
  }

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This package is part of a richer suite called SPOCC Species Occurrence Data, along with several other packages, that provide access to occurrence records from multiple databases. We recommend using SPOCC as the primary R interface to AntWeb unless your needs are limited to this single source.

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Questions, bugs, and suggestions

Please file any bugs or questions as issues or send in a pull request.

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Code of Conduct

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.