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: |
5.0.3 |
| 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: |
2026-04-07 |
| 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 |
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