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rgbif

Interface to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility API

v3.8.5 · Mar 20, 2026 · MIT + file LICENSE

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A programmatic interface to the Web Service methods provided by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF; <https://www.gbif.org/developer/summary>). GBIF is a database of species occurrence records from sources all over the globe. rgbif includes functions for searching for taxonomic names, retrieving information on data providers, getting species occurrence records, getting counts of occurrence records, and using the GBIF tile map service to make rasters summarizing huge amounts of data.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies xml2 ggplot2 crul data.table whisker magrittr jsonlite oai tibble lazyeval R6 CoordinateCleaner RuHere arakno caretSDM gatoRs intSDM spidR spocc EcoCleanR KnowBR downscale geoflow ohvbd rangeModelMetadata tidysdm rgbif

Version History

updated 3.8.5 ← 3.8.4 diff Mar 20, 2026
new 3.8.4 Mar 10, 2026
updated 3.8.4 ← 3.8.3 diff Nov 12, 2025
updated 3.8.3 ← 3.8.2 diff Sep 3, 2025
updated 3.8.2 ← 3.8.1 diff Jun 11, 2025
updated 3.8.1 ← 3.8.0 diff Sep 26, 2024
updated 3.8.0 ← 3.7.9 diff May 22, 2024
updated 3.7.9 ← 3.7.8 diff Jan 10, 2024
updated 3.7.8 ← 3.7.7 diff Sep 10, 2023
updated 3.7.7 ← 3.7.6 diff Apr 2, 2023
updated 3.7.6 ← 3.7.5 diff Mar 22, 2023
updated 3.7.5 ← 3.7.4 diff Jan 4, 2023
updated 3.7.4 ← 3.7.3 diff Dec 5, 2022
updated 3.7.3 ← 3.7.2 diff Sep 2, 2022
updated 3.7.2 ← 3.7.1 diff Apr 10, 2022
updated 3.7.1 ← 3.7.0 diff Mar 15, 2022
updated 3.7.0 ← 3.6.0 diff Feb 7, 2022
updated 3.6.0 ← 3.5.2 diff Jun 1, 2021
updated 3.5.2 ← 3.5.0 diff Jan 26, 2021
updated 3.5.0 ← 3.4.2 diff Jan 12, 2021