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# ritalic

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**ritalic** is an R package which gives you access to
[ITALIC](https://italic.units.it/) mediated data via its [RESTful
API](https://italic.units.it/index.php?procedure=api).

**ITALIC** the Information System on Italian Lichens, makes available
information and resources about the lichens known to occur in Italy and
bordering countries. It is maintained and updated by the Research Unit
of Professor Pier Luigi Nimis, at the University of Trieste (NE Italy),
Department of Life Sciences. Most of the data are derived from the
Checklist of the Lichens of Italy by Nimis (2016), but nomenclatural and
distributional data are being continuously updated.

## Installation

You can either install the stable relase of ritalic using the version
available on CRAN:

``` r
# install ritalic
install.packages("ritalic")
# load ritalic
library(ritalic)
```

Or you can install the development version of the package from
[GitHub](https://github.com/plant-data/ritalic):

``` r
# install devtools package
install.packages("devtools")
# load devtools
library(devtools)
# install ritalic
devtools::install_github("plant-data/ritalic")
# load ritalic
library(ritalic)

# Now you can use the functions available in ritalic
```

## Usage

Italic has a guide designed to help users: [function and
examples](https://italic.units.it/ritalic/)

## Citation

Coming soon
