Data from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants • rWCVPdata

rWCVPdata is a data package that redistributes snapshots of the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP) database so it is easier to load into R.

Installation

rWCVPdata is not hosted on CRAN, but you can install it using:

install.packages("rWCVPdata", repos=c("https://matildabrown.github.io/drat", "https://cloud.r-project.org"))

Or you can add our data repository to your repo list first:

r <- getOption("repos")
r["matildabrown"] <- "https://matildabrown.github.io/drat"
options(repos=r)

install.packages("rWCVPdata")

You can install the latest development version of rWCVPdata from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("matildabrown/rWCVPdata")

If you use rWCVPdata, please cite the snapshot of the database you used and the paper describing WCVP.

You can find out how to cite these by running:

citation("rWCVPdata")