README.md

In jacob-ogre/ecosdata: Scrape the ECOS Website, http://ecos.fws.gov

ecosdata

An R project for scraping endangered species documents and data from ECOS.

Purpose

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) maintains the ECOS website as a resource for information and documents about species listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). While useful in some ways, there is much more that can be done with all of the data that is provided by ECOS. This R project contains a set of scripts to scrape data and documents from ECOS, regularly check for data and document updates, and manage the data.

This is an "analysis package," i.e., an R package focused on analysis with the .Rmd vignettes as analysis scripts. The advantages (from our POV) of creating an analysis package rather than plain R scripts are (a) familiar file structure and (b) ease of documentation.

Questions

Have questions about these scripts? Want to contribute? Submit an issue here or get in touch.

License

This project is licensed under a BSD 2-clause open source license. See the LICENSE file in the repo.

jacob-ogre/ecosdata documentation built on May 18, 2019, 8 a.m.