README.md

In poissonconsulting/fishbc: Fishes of British Columbia

fishbc

Introduction

fishbc is an R package that provides provides raw and curated data on the codes, classification and conservation status of freshwater fishes in British Columbia. Marine fishes will be added in a future release. It also include raw fish codes for BC Conservation Data Centre and the Government of Alberta.

It contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia and the Open Government Licence - Alberta

Installation

To install the latest release from CRAN

install.packages("fishbc")

To install the latest development version from GitHub

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("poissonconsulting/fishbc")

Demonstration

Get the curated freshwater fish of BC fish codes.

library(tibble) # for tidy printing
fishbc::freshwaterfish
#> # A tibble: 161 × 18
#>    Code  CommonName  Class Order Family Genus Species Subspecies Species2 Extant
#>    <chr> <chr>       <chr> <chr> <chr>  <chr> <chr>   <chr>      <chr>    <lgl> 
#>  1 AF    All Fish    <NA>  <NA>  <NA>   <NA>  <NA>    <NA>       <NA>     TRUE  
#>  2 SP    Fish Unide… <NA>  <NA>  <NA>   <NA>  <NA>    <NA>       <NA>     TRUE  
#>  3 SG    Sturgeon (… Acti… Acip… Acipe… Acip… <NA>    <NA>       <NA>     TRUE  
#>  4 GSG   Green Stur… Acti… Acip… Acipe… Acip… mediro… <NA>       <NA>     TRUE  
#>  5 WSG   White Stur… Acti… Acip… Acipe… Acip… transm… <NA>       <NA>     TRUE  
#>  6 SH    American S… Acti… Clup… Clupe… Alosa sapidi… <NA>       <NA>     TRUE  
#>  7 SU    Sucker (Ge… Acti… Cypr… Catos… <NA>  <NA>    <NA>       <NA>     TRUE  
#>  8 LSU   Longnose S… Acti… Cypr… Catos… Cato… catost… <NA>       <NA>     TRUE  
#>  9 BSU   Bridgelip … Acti… Cypr… Catos… Cato… columb… <NA>       <NA>     TRUE  
#> 10 WSU   White Suck… Acti… Cypr… Catos… Cato… commer… <NA>       <NA>     TRUE  
#> # ℹ 151 more rows
#> # ℹ 8 more variables: Native <lgl>, Marine <lgl>, Yellow <lgl>, Blue <lgl>,
#> #   Red <lgl>, CDCode <chr>, ABCode <chr>, Ktunaxa <chr>

Get the common names for fish codes.

fishbc::fbc_common_name(c("AF", "WSG", NA, "AF", "NOTACODE"))
#> [1] "All Fish"       "White Sturgeon" NA               "All Fish"      
#> [5] NA

Contribution

Please report any issues.

Pull requests are always welcome.

Code of Conduct

Please note that the fishbc project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.

poissonconsulting/fishbc documentation built on April 7, 2024, 6:50 p.m.