R client for various sources of species trait data.
Docs: https://docs.ropensci.org/traits/
What is a trait? A “trait” for the purposes of this package is broadly defined as an aspect of a species that can be described or measured, such as physical traits (size, length, height, color), behavioral traits (running speed, etc.), and even variables that make up the niche of the species (e.g., habitat).
Included in traits with the associated function prefix
or function name:
| Source | Function prefix | Link |
|---|---|---|
| BETYdb |
betydb_
|
https://www.betydb.org/ |
| NCBI |
ncbi_
|
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ |
| Encyclopedia of Life |
traitbank_
|
https://github.com/EOL/publishing/blob/master/doc/api.md |
| Birdlife International |
birdlife_
|
https://www.birdlife.org/ |
| LEDA Traitbase |
leda_
|
|
| Zanne et al. plant dataset |
tr_zanne
|
|
| Amniote life history dataset |
tr_ernest
|
Talk to us on the issues page (https://github.com/ropensci/traits/issues) if you know of a source of traits data with an API, and we’ll see about including it.
CRAN
install.packages("traits")R-Universe (alternative)
install.packages(
"traits",
repos = c("https://ropensci.r-universe.dev", "https://cloud.r-project.org")
)Development version from GitHub
remotes::install_github("ropensci/traits")library("traits")
library("dplyr")traits in R doing
citation(package = 'traits')