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<!-- README.md is generated from README.Rmd. Please edit that file -->ALA4R
ALA4R is deprecated; we suggest you use galah instead available on
CRAN. galah provides an
improved interface to ALA data, while providing the same core
functionality as ALA4R. For an introduction to galah, visit the
GitHub page.
The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) provides tools to enable users of biodiversity information to find, access, combine and visualise data on Australian plants and animals; these have been made available from https://www.ala.org.au/. Here we provide a subset of the tools to be directly used within R.
ALA4R enables the R community to directly access data and resources hosted by the ALA.
The use-examples presented at the 2014 ALA Science
Symposium
are available in the package vignette, via (in R): vignette("ALA4R"),
or browse it
online.
Installing
ALA4R is available from GitHub:
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("AtlasOfLivingAustralia/ALA4R")
On Linux you will first need to ensure that libcurl and v8 (version
<= 3.15) are installed on your system — e.g. on Ubuntu/Debian, open a
terminal and do:
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev libv8-3.14-dev
or install via the Software Centre.
Usage
See the online documentation at https://atlasoflivingaustralia.github.io/ALA4R/ including the package vignette.
Citing ALA4R
To generate a citation for ALA4R run:
citation(package = "ALA4R")