BIEN

1.2.8

Tools for Accessing the Botanical Information and Ecology Network Database

6packages depend

66.5Kdownloads / year

54.6%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Brian MaitnerFirst published 2017-01-1210 releasesCRAN page ↗

Provides Tools for Accessing the Botanical Information and Ecology Network Database. The BIEN database contains cleaned and standardized botanical data including occurrence, trait, plot and taxonomic data (See https://bien.nceas.ucsb.edu/bien/ for more Information). This package provides functions that query the BIEN database by constructing and executing optimized SQL queries.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)

install.packages("BIEN", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-bien

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-BIEN

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 7.6 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.07

54.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-19
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OK2026-04-09
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-10
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 93 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 2%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 1%

Downloads

66.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,713 · ~182/day · ~5.5K/mo

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66.5K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 4.1.0RPostgreSQL

Imports (7)

DBI ape sf terra doParallelparallelforeach

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown testthat curl maps

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

3indirect

RuHere occCite rangeModelMetadata GVS S4DM wallace

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Brian Maitner

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Brian Maitner

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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1.2.8Latest
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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2023-01-06 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.2.5
2022-02-25 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-02-25
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-01-06
check issues were not corrected in time Seems access to a remote PostgreSQL database
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2020-02-27 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2018-05-09 · diff ↗

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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-01-12
Total releases: 10 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 95 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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