rfishbase compendium: Publication, R package, version history
rfishbase
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_Accessing data from FishBase using R_
'rfishbase' is a package for interfacing with the [fishbase.org](http://fishbase.org) database. It provides code to download and parse a local copy of fishbase, which can be used for rapid access for a variety of analysis functions.
- [Published copy in Journal of Fish Biology](http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8649.2012.03464.x)
- [Development version source code on github](https://github.com/ropensci/rfishbase)
- [HTML package documentation](http://ropensci.github.com/rfishbase/)
- [Report issues, bugs or feature requests](https://github.com/ropensci/rfishbase/issues)
Installation
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'rfishbase' is available [on CRAN](http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rfishbase/) and can be installed through the R package manager (see 'install.packages'). The latest (development) version is hosted here on github, and can be installed using the [devtools](https://github.com/hadley/devtools) package:
'''r
library(devtools)
install_github("rfishbase", "ropensci")
'''
Getting started
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- Read our [tutorial](https://github.com/ropensci/rfishbase/blob/master/inst/doc/rfishbase/rfishbase_github.md)
- Browse the examples in the [documentation](http://ropensci.github.com/rfishbase/)
'rfishbase' is developed by [Carl Boettiger](https://github.com/cboettig) in collaboration with [Duncan Temple Lang](https://github.com/duncantl) and Peter Wainwright, and is part of the [rOpenSci project](http://github.com/ropensci). This software, examples, and documentation are freely provided under the [CC0 license](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).
A [preprint](https://github.com/ropensci/rfishbase/blob/master/inst/doc/rfishbase/rfishbase_github.md) of our manuscript introducing the package can be found in the [inst/doc](https://github.com/ropensci/rfishbase/tree/master/inst/doc) directory.
References
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Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2011. FishBase.
World Wide Web electronic publication.
www.fishbase.org, version (08/2011).
