rornitho-package: Ornitho Data in R

In heibl/rornitho: Functions for Visualisation of Ornitho Bird Observations

Description

Read bird observation data from the ‘ornitho.de’ project database and produce graphics suitable for bird atlasses.

Details

Package:	rornitho
Type:	Package
Version:	1.0-3
Date:	2016-02-05
License:	GPL (>= 2)

The rornitho package offers three sets of functions:

1. Import and formating of ornitho data - Data can be imported with read.ornitho. This gives a list of objects of class ornithoSpec, which can be tranformed to a data frame with ornitho2df and back to a list with df2ornitho.

2. Preparing maps for visualization - The function ornithoMap bundles maps of topographical features like political borders, water bodies and grids into a single, coherent object of class ornithoMap, which can be reprojected with projOrnithoMap and plotted with plotOrnithoMap.

3. Plotting - The geographical distribution of bird observations can be plotted either as points (plotOrnithoPoints) or rasterized grid (plotOrnithoRaster). The functions plotOrnithoAltitude and plotOrnithoPheno will produce barplots of the altitudinal and the phenological distribution of bird observations, respectively. Currently, there is one convenience function for plotting ready-designed two-page summaries suited for bird atlasses: ornithoPDF.

This work was founded by the Hessische Gesellschaft für Ornithologie und Naturschutz (http://www.hgon.de/).

Author(s)

Simon Thorn <[e-mail]>, Christoph Heibl <[e-mail]> Maintainer: Christoph Heibl <[e-mail]>

References

The German ornitho website: http://www.ornitho.de/

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