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Browse the Encyclopedia Of Life from R
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aureole

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aureole is an R package to query the Encyclopedia Of Life.

Install

remotes::install_github("richelbilderbeek/aureole")

Use

library(aureole)

Get URLs for species images

df <- download_image_urls_from_name("Homo sapiens")
knitr::kable(df)

Get a species ID

In case you wonder :-)

df <- download_search_results("Homo sapiens")
knitr::kable(df)

History

Originally, this package was called Reol and was written by Barb Banbury and Brian O'Meara and can be found here.

aureole started from the last submitted CRAN source here (which is version 1.55). I could find the original maintainer, but not her email address. Due to that, I took off without any form of communication with the original maintainer.

In the end, I ruthlessly removed all Reol code and started from close-to-scratch. I renamed the package to aureole to reflect this and set its license at GPL-3. aureole does not intend to be backwards compatible with Reol. To reflect the history of aureole, its first version number is v2.0.