README.md

In vijaybarve/bdsns: Biodiversity Records from Social Networking Sites

bdsns

Harvesting Biodiversity Records from Social Networking Sites

[Barve, V. (2014). Discovering and developing primary biodiversity data from social networking sites: A novel approach. Ecological Informatics, 24, 194–199. doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2014.08.008 link]

Google Summer of Code 2015

Install

Install the development version using install_github within Hadley's devtools package.

install.packages("devtools")
require(devtools)

install_github("vijaybarve/bdsns")
require(bdsns)

Note:

Windows users have to first install Rtools.

Functions currently available

flickerlist

Basic function to query Flickr website using APIs

flickrlist(myapikey,"Danaus chrysippus")

flickrtodatabase

Function to download data form Flickr for multiple species and store it in sqlite database

flickrtodatabase(myapikey,"test.txt","scname","testdb")

extract_flickrdb

Helper function to extract Flickr data from sqlite database stored using flickrtodatabase

mydat=extract_flickrdb("testdb","text.csv")

flickr2dwc

Convert Flicker data frame to Darwin Core format

flickr2dwc(flickrdat)

dcw2XML

Convert Darwin Core format data frame to XML

dcw2XML(dat)

flickr2dwcA

Convert Flicker data frame to Darwin Core Archiev file

flickr2dwcA(flickrdat)

vijaybarve/bdsns documentation built on May 3, 2019, 6:12 p.m.