https://github.com/sckott/rfna

Web page scraping for eFloras, including the Flora of North America
https://github.com/sckott/rfna

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Web page scraping for eFloras, including the Flora of North America

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/sckott/rfna
• Owner: sckott
• License: other
• Created: 2011-12-12T16:53:32.000Z (about 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-09-17T16:39:11.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-09T15:47:02.281Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: efloras, flora, floras, north-america, r, r-package, rstats
• Language: R
• Homepage: https://sckott.github.io/rfna
• Size: 58.6 KB
• Stars: 6
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.Rmd
  • License: LICENSE

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```{r echo=FALSE}

knitr::opts_chunk$set(

  comment = "#>",

  collapse = TRUE

)

```

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This set of functions scrapes web content, and allows searches of the content, on the eFloras website, including Flora of North America, etc.

The website: 

## Installation

Install `rfna`

```{r eval=FALSE}

remotes::install_github("sckott/rfna")

```

```{r}

library('rfna')

```

## Usage

Get families

```{r}

res <- get_families("fna")

res$names[1:10]

```

Get genera

```{r}

res <- get_genera(from='fna', family='Asteraceae')

res$names[1:10]

```

Parse a page

```{r}

pg1<-'http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=1&start_taxon_id=10074&page=1'

head(parse_page(pg1))

```

Get state (paleate or epaleate) of receptacle.

```{r}

url <- 'http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=102552'

receptacle(url)

```

## Meta

* Please [report any issues or bugs](https://github.com/sckott/rfna/issues)

* License: MIT

* Get citation information for `rfna` in R doing `citation(package = 'rfna')`