worrms

A R client for the World Register of Marine Species.
https://github.com/ropensci/worrms

Category: Biosphere
Sub Category: Marine Life and Fishery

Keywords

api-wrapper biological-data biology fish jerico-relevant marine-biology marine-species r r-package rstats taxize taxonomy

Keywords from Contributors

cycle routes lifewatch marine occurrence biodiversity desire-lines data-access noaa-data noaa

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World Register of Marine Species R client

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ropensci/worrms
• Owner: ropensci
• License: other
• Created: 2016-12-23T01:03:45.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-01-15T13:38:28.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-12-21T01:30:38.267Z (4 days ago)
• Topics: api-wrapper, biological-data, biology, fish, jerico-relevant, marine-biology, marine-species, r, r-package, rstats, taxize, taxonomy
• Language: R
• Homepage: https://docs.ropensci.org/worrms
• Size: 369 KB
• Stars: 28
• Watchers: 8
• Forks: 9
• Open Issues: 6
• Releases: 7
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.Rmd
  • Contributing: .github/CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE

README.Rmd

          worrms
======

```{r echo=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  comment = "#>",
  collapse = TRUE,
  warning = FALSE,
  message = FALSE
)
```



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`worrms` is a R client for the World Register of Marine Species

* World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) https://www.marinespecies.org/
* WoRMS REST API docs: https://www.marinespecies.org/rest/

See the taxize book (https://taxize.dev) for taxonomically focused work
in this and similar packages.

## Installation

More stable CRAN version

```{r eval=FALSE}
install.packages("worrms")
```

Development version

```{r eval=FALSE}
remotes::install_github("ropensci/worrms")
```

```{r}
library("worrms")
```

## Meta

* Please [report any issues or bugs](https://github.com/ropensci/worrms/issues).
* License: MIT
* Get citation information for `worrms` in R doing `citation(package = 'worrms')`
* Please note that this package is released with a [Contributor Code of Conduct](https://ropensci.org/code-of-conduct/). By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.

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