rfishbase: R Interface to 'FishBase'

A programmatic interface to 'FishBase', re-written based on an accompanying 'RESTful' API. Access tables describing over 30,000 species of fish, their biology, ecology, morphology, and more. This package also supports experimental access to 'SeaLifeBase' data, which contains nearly 200,000 species records for all types of aquatic life not covered by 'FishBase.'

Version:	5.0.2
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports:	glue, stringr, purrr, dplyr, duckdbfs (≥ 0.0.9), rlang, magrittr, memoise, xml2
Suggests:	testthat, rmarkdown, knitr, covr, spelling, curl
Published:	2025-12-17
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.rfishbase
Author:	Carl Boettiger [cre, aut], Scott Chamberlain [aut], Duncan Temple Lang [aut], Peter Wainwright [aut], Kevin Cazelles [ctb], Guohuan Su [ctb]
Maintainer:	Carl Boettiger <cboettig at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/ropensci/rfishbase/issues
License:	CC0
URL:	https://docs.ropensci.org/rfishbase/, https://github.com/ropensci/rfishbase
NeedsCompilation:	no
Language:	en-US
Citation:	rfishbase citation info
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	rfishbase results

Documentation:

Reference manual:

rfishbase.html , rfishbase.pdf

Downloads:

Package source:	rfishbase_5.0.2.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: rfishbase_5.0.2.zip, r-release: rfishbase_5.0.2.zip, r-oldrel: rfishbase_5.0.2.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): rfishbase_5.0.2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): rfishbase_5.0.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): rfishbase_5.0.2.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): rfishbase_5.0.2.tgz
Old sources:	rfishbase archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports:	dietr, FishPhyloMaker, rcatfish
Reverse suggests:	fishtree, fishualize, MSEtool

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