NSR R package"
In NSR: 'Native Status Resolver'

knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)

Native Species Resolver

The package NSR is designed to interact with the Native Species Resolver of the Botanical Information and Ecology Network.

Installing NSR

library(devtools)
install_github("EnquistLab/RNSR/NSR")

The easiest case: one species in one political division

library(NSR)
NSR_simple(species = "Acer rubrum",
           country =  "Canada",
           state_province = "Ontario")

Multiple species

When submitting data into the NSR, the function expects a data.frame containing 5 columns as input, however only the columns "species" and "country" (the first two) need to be populated. If you ever forget the input format, you can use the function NSR_template as a quick look-up, or to populate.

head(NSR_template())

Example data

#First, pull the example data that are included with the package
data("nsr_testfile")
head(nsr_testfile)

example_results <- NSR(nsr_testfile)

head(example_results)

Source metadata

To access metadata for the sources currently consulted by the NSR, use the function NSR_metadata(). To figure out which political divisions contain checklists that were consulted by the NSR, use the function NSR_political_divisions().

sources <- NSR_metadata()

checklist_per_political_divisions <- NSR_political_divisions()

# If you'd rather see which political divisions are available within each checklist, set "by_country" to FALSE

political_divisions_per_checklist <- NSR_political_divisions(by_country = FALSE)