rfishbase compendium: Publication, R package, version history

rfishbase ========= _Accessing data from FishBase using R_ 'rfishbase' is a package for interfacing with the fishbase.org database. It provides code to download and parse a local copy of fishbase, which can be used for rapid access for a variety of analysis functions. - Published copy in Journal of Fish Biology - Development version source code on github - HTML package documentation - Report issues, bugs or feature requests Installation ------------ 'rfishbase' is available on CRAN and can be installed through the R package manager (see 'install.packages').

The latest (development) version is hosted here on github, and can be installed using the devtools package: '''r library(devtools) install_github("rfishbase", "ropensci") ''' Getting started --------------- - Read our tutorial - Browse the examples in the documentation 'rfishbase' is developed by Carl Boettiger in collaboration with Duncan Temple Lang and Peter Wainwright, and is part of the rOpenSci project.