gbifdb: High Performance Interface to 'GBIF'
A high performance interface to the Global Biodiversity
Information Facility, 'GBIF'. In contrast to 'rgbif', which can
access small subsets of 'GBIF' data through web-based queries to
a central server, 'gbifdb' provides enhanced performance for R users
performing large-scale analyses on servers and cloud computing
providers, providing full support for arbitrary 'SQL' or 'dplyr'
operations on the complete 'GBIF' data tables (now over 1 billion
records, and over a terabyte in size). 'gbifdb' accesses a copy
of the 'GBIF' data in 'parquet' format, which is already readily
available in commercial computing clouds such as the Amazon Open
Data portal and the Microsoft Planetary Computer, or can be
accessed directly without downloading, or downloaded
to any server with suitable bandwidth and storage space.
The high-performance techniques for local and remote access
are described in <https://duckdb.org/why_duckdb>
and <https://arrow.apache.org/docs/r/articles/fs.html> respectively.
| Version: |
1.0.0 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 4.0) |
| Imports: |
arrow (≥ 8.0.0), dplyr, duckdbfs |
| Suggests: |
spelling, dbplyr, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), covr, knitr, rmarkdown, minioclient |
| Published: |
2023-10-19 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.gbifdb |
| Author: |
Carl Boettiger 
[aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: |
Carl Boettiger <cboettig at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: |
https://github.com/ropensci/gbifdb |
| License: |
Apache License (≥ 2) |
| URL: |
https://docs.ropensci.org/gbifdb/,
https://github.com/ropensci/gbifdb |
| NeedsCompilation: |
no |
| Language: |
en-US |
| Materials: |
README NEWS |
| CRAN checks: |
gbifdb results |
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These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.