AntWeb

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AntWeb is a repository of ant specimen records maintained by the California Academy of Sciences. From the website's description:

AntWeb is the world's largest online database of images, specimen records, and natural history information on ants. It is community driven and open to contribution from anyone with specimen records, natural history comments, or images.

Resources

• AntWeb
• AntWeb API
• API version 2

Installing the package

Stable version

install.packages("AntWeb", dependencies = TRUE)
# version 0.6

Development version

# If you don't already have the devtools package installed, run
# install.packages("devtools")
# unlike most packages, devtools requires additional non-R dependencies depending on your OS. 
# See → https://github.com/ropensci/rOpenSci/wiki/Installing-devtools
library(devtools)
install_github("ropensci/AntWeb", ref = "dev")

Quick usage guide

Citation

To cite package ‘AntWeb’ in publications use:

  'Karthik Ram' (2014). AntWeb: programmatic interface
  to the AntWeb. R package version 0.7.2.99.
  https://github.com/ropensci/AntWeb

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {AntWeb: programmatic interface to the AntWeb},
    author = {'Karthik Ram'},
    year = {2014},
    note = {R package version 0.7.2.99},
    url = {https://github.com/ropensci/AntWeb},
  }

This package is part of a richer suite called SPOCC Species Occurrence Data, along with several other packages, that provide access to occurrence records from multiple databases. We recommend using SPOCC as the primary R interface to AntWeb unless your needs are limited to this single source.

Questions, bugs, and suggestions

Please file any bugs or questions as issues or send in a pull request.