rNBN is an R package that uses the new NBN Gateway to make data even more accessible. Written for the statistical programming language R, the package is targeted at researchers and students who may wish to undertake research using the occurrence data held by the NBN.
The package utilises the NBN login facilities, ensuring that when you use it you have access to all of the data that you would have access to if you were to login to the NBN Gateway itself. Functions within the package allow users to search occurrence data by species, year-range, location, dataset and species groups. Other functions included allowing easy lookup of species Taxon Version Keys, retrieval of a species’ taxonomical hierarchy, species lists for datasets, as well access to lists of datasets, groups, organisations and vice counties which can be used in data searches.
The package is currently in beta phase, allowing people to use the package and request additional features or changes before the package goes up to CRAN, the central repository for R packages.
For more information and to download the package click here
