galaxias: Describe, Package, and Share Biodiversity Data

The Darwin Core data standard is widely used to share biodiversity information, most notably by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and its partner nodes; but converting data to this standard can be tricky. 'galaxias' is functionally similar to 'devtools', but with a focus on building Darwin Core Archives rather than R packages, enabling data to be shared and re-used with relative ease. For details see Wieczorek and colleagues (2012) <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029715>.

Package details

AuthorMartin Westgate [aut, cre], Shandiya Balasubramaniam [aut], Dax Kellie [aut]
MaintainerMartin Westgate <martin.westgate@csiro.au>
LicenseMPL-2.0
Version0.1.0
URL https://galaxias.ala.org.au/R/
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("galaxias")

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galaxias documentation built on Aug. 8, 2025, 7:50 p.m.