rvertnet

0.8.4

Search 'Vertnet', a 'Database' of Vertebrate Specimen Records

1packages depend

65.4Kdownloads / year

81.0%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Dave SlagerFirst published 2012-11-2315 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Retrieve, map and summarize data from the 'VertNet.org' archives (https://vertnet.org/). Functions allow searching by many parameters, including 'taxonomic' names, places, and dates. In addition, there is an interface for conducting spatially delimited searches, and another for requesting large 'datasets' via email.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

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

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

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("ropensci/rvertnet")

Development version from ropensci/rvertnet. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-rvertnet

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-rvertnet

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

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

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-rvertnet

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

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

Slowest check: 1.9 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 59.86

81.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
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OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 143 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 53%
References docs: 22%

Downloads

65.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,884 · ~179/day · ~5.4K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ropensci/rvertnet

7Stars

4Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

14Releases

359Commits

9Contributors

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359 commits · Last activity 2024-10-19

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/rvertnet on 2026-07-31.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

data-raw/Makefile

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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codemeta.json

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Coverage (1)

Codecov

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (6)

jsonlite crul dplyr tibble ggplot2 maps

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown testthat vcr withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

6indirect

spocc

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Dave Slager

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 0.8.3

Authors (2)

Dave Slager

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 0.8.3

Scott Chamberlain

Author, Copyright holder

Contributors (2)

Vijay Barve

Contributor

Chris Ray

Contributor · added in 0.2.2

Dave Slager

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 0.8.3

Scott Chamberlain

Author, Copyright holder

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Package metadata

First published: 2012-11-23
Total releases: 15 / 14 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 1.4 KB / 1 file
Download size: 524 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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