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rfishbase

R Interface to 'FishBase'

v5.0.3 · Apr 6, 2026 · CC0

Description

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.'

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PDF version of manual

Rd conversion errors:
Converting parsed Rd's to LaTeX ..Warning in file(out, "wt") :
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Package required but not available: ‘duckdbfs’

See section ‘The DESCRIPTION file’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’
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ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE May 13, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

package dependencies

Package required but not available: ‘duckdbfs’

See section ‘The DESCRIPTION file’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’
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Reverse Dependencies (6)

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies glue stringr purrr dplyr duckdbfs rlang magrittr memoise xml2 FishPhyloMaker dietr rcatfish MSEtool fishtree fishualize rfishbase

Version History

32 tracked
updated 5.0.3 ← 5.0.2 diff Apr 7, 2026
new 5.0.2 Mar 10, 2026
updated 5.0.2 ← 5.0.1 diff Dec 16, 2025
updated 5.0.1 ← 5.0.0 diff Jan 11, 2025
updated 5.0.0 ← 4.1.2 diff Sep 1, 2024
updated 4.1.2 ← 4.1.1 diff Jun 2, 2023
updated 4.1.1 ← 4.1.0 diff Feb 19, 2023
updated 4.1.0 ← 4.0.0 diff Feb 11, 2023
updated 4.0.0 ← 3.1.10 diff Dec 13, 2021
updated 3.1.10 ← 3.1.9 diff Nov 9, 2021
updated 3.1.9 ← 3.1.8 diff Aug 8, 2021
updated 3.1.8 ← 3.1.7 diff Jun 6, 2021
updated 3.1.7 ← 3.1.6 diff Apr 7, 2021
updated 3.1.6 ← 3.1.5 diff Feb 9, 2021
updated 3.1.5 ← 3.1.4 diff Jan 17, 2021