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expowo

An R Package for Mining Global Plant Diversity and Distribution Data

v3.0 · Feb 24, 2026 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

Produces diversity estimates and species lists with associated global distribution for any vascular plant family and genus from 'Plants of the World Online' database <https://powo.science.kew.org/>, by interacting with the source code of each plant taxon page. It also creates global maps of species richness, graphics of species discoveries and name changes over time. For more details: 'Zuanny, D.C., B.Vilela, P.W.Moonlight, T.E.Särkinen, and D.Cardoso. 2024. expowo: An R package for mining global plant diversity and distribution data. Applications in Plant Sciences 12: e11609'.

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NOTE 11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 18, 2026
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64

installed package size

installed size is  5.1Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    doc    3.4Mb
    help   1.4Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is  5.1Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    doc    3.4Mb
    help   1.4Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

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installed size is  5.1Mb
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    doc    3.4Mb
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ERROR 9 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 11, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
  ...
--- re-building ‘data_package.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
[WARNING] Deprecated: --highlight-style. Use --syntax-highlighting instead.
--- finished re-building ‘data_package.Rmd’

--- re-building ‘mapping_distribution
...[truncated]...
: --highlight-style. Use --syntax-highlighting instead.
--- finished re-building ‘plotting_nomenclatural_changes.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  ‘mining_accepted_genera.Rmd’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
ERROR r-patched-linux-x86_64

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
  ...
--- re-building ‘data_package.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
[WARNING] Deprecated: --highlight-style. Use --syntax-highlighting instead.
--- finished re-building ‘data_package.Rmd’

--- re-building ‘mapping_distribution
...[truncated]...
: --highlight-style. Use --syntax-highlighting instead.
--- finished re-building ‘plotting_nomenclatural_changes.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  ‘mining_accepted_genera.Rmd’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64

installed package size

installed size is  5.1Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    doc    3.4Mb
    help   1.4Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is  5.1Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    doc    3.4Mb
    help   1.4Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is  5.1Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    doc    3.4Mb
    help   1.4Mb
NOTE 11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64

installed package size

installed size is  5.1Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    doc    3.4Mb
    help   1.4Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is  5.1Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    doc    3.4Mb
    help   1.4Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is  5.1Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    doc    3.4Mb
    help   1.4Mb

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies RColorBrewer dplyr magrittr data.table ggplot2 rnaturalearth sp sf R.utils flora tibble cowplot plyr PupillometryR scales +1 more dependencies expowo

Version History

new 3.0 Mar 10, 2026
updated 3.0 ← 2.0 diff Feb 23, 2026
updated 2.0 ← 1.0 diff Feb 29, 2024
new 1.0 Feb 21, 2023