In Sammibulin/NaturalR: NaturalR: Downloading and filetering out iNaturalist queries

The purpose of this package is to simplify downloading data from iNaturalist and perform simple filtering upon that data. Thank you to Edmund Hart for building the rinat package which I used to interact with iNaturalist. His GitHub can be found at https://www.github.com/emhart. Also thank you to the contributors of dplyr, https://github.com/tidyverse/dplyr.

This first function prompts you for a taxon of interest, how many results you want, and what year you want to look in. In this example, I have used a modified taxon_search script that has the prompts already filled out.

knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = params$printcode)
library(NaturalR)

The parameters passed into this search were chiroptera and 2020

taxon_search_demo()

In actual package usage, use "taxon_search" and you will be prompted for the 2 parameters

This step serves to remove any observations in your initial query that have identity disagreements.

remove_disagreements(search_output)

The next function serves to filter out any observation that is not considered a research grade observation. This is another step which serves to increase the quality of the downloaded data.

research_grade_only(disagreements_removed)

Finally there is a query summarized function which gives you a numerical overview of the remaining data. Since the data is in a data frame format, any further filtering or visualization can be easily done from this step.

query_summarized(filtered_research)

knitr::kable(summary_of_query, format="html")

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