https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/ALA4R

Access data and resources hosted by the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA)
https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/ALA4R

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Access data and resources hosted by the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA)

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/ALA4R
• Owner: AtlasOfLivingAustralia
• Created: 2014-09-22T05:20:49.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-09-13T05:37:44.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-29T22:30:27.540Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: ala, ala-product-ala4r, r
• Language: R
• Homepage: https://atlasoflivingaustralia.github.io/ALA4R/
• Size: 23 MB
• Stars: 42
• Watchers: 31
• Forks: 8
• Open Issues: 22
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.Rmd

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• open-sustainable-technology - ALA4R - The Atlas of Living Australia provides tools to enable users of biodiversity information to find, access, combine and visualise data on Australian plants and animals. (Biosphere / Biodiversity Data Access and Management)

README

        
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output: github_document

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```{r, echo = FALSE}

knitr::opts_chunk$set(

  collapse = TRUE,

  comment = "#>",

  fig.path = "vignettes/README-"

)

```

# ALA4R

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[![CRAN Status](https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/ALA4R)](https://www.r-pkg.org/pkg/ALA4R)

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*`ALA4R` is deprecated and will be removed from CRAN at the end of 2021. The package to replace ALA4R, `galah`, is now [available on CRAN](https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=galah). `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](https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/galah).*

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](https://www.ala.org.au/blogs-news/2014-atlas-of-living-australia-science-symposium/) are available in the package vignette, via (in R): `vignette("ALA4R")`, or [browse it online](https://atlasoflivingaustralia.github.io/ALA4R/articles/ALA4R.html).

## Citing ALA4R 

To generate a citation for ALA4R run: 

```r

citation(package = "ALA4R")

```

## Installing

Stable version from CRAN:

```{r eval=FALSE}

install.packages("ALA4R")

```

Or the development version from GitHub:

```{r eval=FALSE}

install.packages("devtools")

devtools::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:

```{sh eval=FALSE}

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](https://atlasoflivingaustralia.github.io/ALA4R/articles/ALA4R.html).