As part of my Google Summer of Code, I am also working on another package for R called rvertnet. This package is a wrapper in R for VertNet websites. Vertnet is a vertebrate distributed database network consisting of FishNet2, MaNIS, HerpNET, and ORNIS. Out of that currently Fishnet, HerpNET and ... [Read more...]

When I attended usrR! 2012 last month, there was an interesting presentation by Dr. David Kahle about the package ggmap. It is a package built over ggmap2 and helps us map spatial data over online maps like Google maps or Open Street Maps. I decided to give ggmap package a try ... [Read more...]

In the earlier post we generated maps from GBIF biodiversity records using maps and ggplot2 packages. We used world map with country borders for that. Now we will generate maps with google maps as base layer using dismo package. Like earlier we download data for Danaus chrysippus from GBIF using ... [Read more...]

Global Biodiversity Information Facility or GBIF is an international consortium working towards making Biodiversity information available through single portal to everyone.  GBIF with its partners are working towards mobilizing data, developing data and metadata standards, developing distributed database system and making the data accessible through APIs. At this point this ... [Read more...]