rcites

An R package to access information from the Speciesplus database, a centralised portal to key information on species of global concern.
https://github.com/ropensci/rcites

Category: Biosphere
Sub Category: Terrestrial Wildlife

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api-client cites database endangered-species r r-package rstats trade

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ecology rmarkdown weather-data blog computational-ecology biodiversity rcpp hugo openscience

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:package: R package to access the CITES Speciesplus database

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/ropensci/rcites
Owner: ropensci
License: other
Created: 2017-12-11T09:59:27.000Z (over 7 years ago)
Default Branch: main
Last Pushed: 2023-02-20T01:13:04.000Z (about 2 years ago)
Last Synced: 2025-02-07T07:41:34.158Z (3 months ago)
Topics: api-client, cites, database, endangered-species, r, r-package, rstats, trade
Language: R
Homepage: https://docs.ropensci.org/rcites
Size: 4.75 MB
Stars: 14
Watchers: 7
Forks: 6
Open Issues: 1
Releases: 4
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: NEWS.md
- Contributing: .github/CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
- Codemeta: codemeta.json

rcites

An R package to access information from the Speciesplus database via the Speciesplus/CITES Checklist API. The package is available for download from CRAN (stable version) and Github (development version).

Please see the release paper for background information about the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the Speciesplus database and basic information about the aim of the package.

Installation

The package can be installed from CRAN:

install.packages("rcites")

The development version can be installed via the remotes 📦

remotes::install_github("ropensci/rcites")

Setup requirements and use

To set up a connection to the CITES Speciesplus database, a personal authentication token is required. Please see the vignette for details how to get a token and how to set the token for package use: Get started with rcites

Additional information about specific use examples are provided for the
African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana).
The package usage for querying multiple species is described in another
vignette entitled 'Bulk analysis with rcites'.

Key features

Once the token is set, the package has five key features:

spp_taxonconcept(): access the Speciesplus taxon concept and retrieve a taxon id
spp_cites_legislation(): access CITES legislation data
spp_eu_legislation(): access EU legislation data
spp_distributions(): access a taxon distribution data
spp_references(): access a listing reference data

Prefix information

The package functions have three different prefixes:

set_ for set_token() to initially set the API token
spp_ for the key features
rcites_ for helper functions that are called within the key features

Citation information

When citing, please refer to both the package citation and the release paper.

Contributors

Main contributors
Reviewers of the package:
- Noam Ross
- Margaret Siple
Editor: Scott Chamberlain
Reporting issue(s):
- @FVFaleiro
- @eveskew
- @fleurhierink
- @wajra

Resources

Another package dealing with data from and about CITES, providing access to its
wildlife trade database: cites

While creating this package, we greatly benefited from:

taxize that inspired the structuring of this repository/package;
the httr vignette: Managing secrets, which is extremely helpful for packages dealing with API.

Code of Conduct

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct.
By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

Also, please read the Terms and Conditions of Use of Speciesplus Data:
https://speciesplus.net/terms-of-use.

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Name: rOpenSci
Login: ropensci
Email: [email protected]
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Description:
Website: https://ropensci.org/
Location: Berkeley, CA
Twitter: rOpenSci
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Total packages: 1
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- cran: 252 last-month
Total dependent packages: 0
Total dependent repositories: 2
Total versions: 6
Total maintainers: 1

cran.r-project.org: rcites

R Interface to the Species+ Database

Homepage: https://docs.ropensci.org/rcites/
Documentation: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rcites/rcites.pdf
Licenses: MIT + file LICENSE
Latest release: 1.3.0 (published about 2 years ago)
Last Synced: 2025-04-25T02:01:39.351Z (2 days ago)
Versions: 6
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 2
Downloads: 252 Last month
Rankings:
- Forks count: 9.635%
- Stargazers count: 15.098%
- Dependent repos count: 19.265%
- Average: 22.609%
- Dependent packages count: 28.751%
- Downloads: 40.298%
Maintainers (1)
- [email protected]

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