In ropensci/floras: Web scraper for the Flora of North America

rfna

knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  comment = "#>",
  collapse = TRUE
)

This set of functions scrapes web content, and allows searches of the content, on the eFloras website, including Flora of North America, etc.

The website: http://www.efloras.org

Installation

Install rfna

remotes::install_github("sckott/rfna")

library('rfna')

Usage

Get families

res <- get_families("fna")
res$names[1:10]

Get genera

res <- get_genera(from='fna', family='Asteraceae')
res$names[1:10]

Parse a page

pg1<-'http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=1&start_taxon_id=10074&page=1'
head(parse_page(pg1))

Get state (paleate or epaleate) of receptacle.

url <- 'http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=102552'
receptacle(url)

Meta

• Please report any issues or bugs
• License: MIT
• Get citation information for rfna in R doing citation(package = 'rfna')

ropensci/floras documentation built on Sept. 22, 2020, 3:43 p.m.