traits: Species Trait Data from Around the Web

traits

R client for various sources of species trait data.

Docs: https://docs.ropensci.org/traits/

What is a trait? A “trait” for the purposes of this package is broadly defined as an aspect of a species that can be described or measured, such as physical traits (size, length, height, color), behavioral traits (running speed, etc.), and even variables that make up the niche of the species (e.g., habitat).

Included in traits with the associated function prefix or function name:

Souce	Function prefix	Link
BETYdb	betydb_	https://www.betydb.org/
NCBI	ncbi_	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Encylopedia of Life	traitbank_	https://github.com/EOL/publishing/blob/master/doc/api.md
Birdlife International	birdlife_	https://www.birdlife.org/
LEDA Traitbase	leda_
Zanne et al. plant dataset	tr_zanne
Amniote life history dataset	tr_ernest

Talk to us on the issues page (https://github.com/ropensci/traits/issues) if you know of a source of traits data with an API, and we’ll see about including it.

Installation

Stable R-Universe version

install.packages("traits", repos = c('https://ropensci.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

_Note: traits has been removed from CRAN pending https://github.com/ropensci/taxize/issues/938_

Or development version from GitHub

install.packages("traits", repos = c('https://ropensci.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org')) 
remotes::install_github("ropensci/traits")

library("traits")
library("dplyr")

Contributors

• Scott Chamberlain
• Zachary Foster
• Ignasi Bartomeus
• David LeBauer
• David Harris
• Chris Black
• Rupert Collins

Meta

• Please report any issues or bugs.
• License: MIT
• Get citation information for traits in R doing citation(package = 'traits')
• Please note that this package is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.