BioWorldR

The BioWorldR package provides a curated collection of biodiversity and species-related datasets, covering a wide range of taxa including birds, plants, reptiles, turtles, mammals, bees, and marine organisms. By gathering and standardizing these datasets from public repositories and ecological R packages, it enables researchers, educators, and students to easily access well-documented examples for use in biodiversity, ecology, biogeography, and comparative biology.

Installation

You can install the BioWorldR package from CRAN with the following R function:

install.packages("BioWorldR")

Usage

After installation, load the package and start exploring and using its functions and datasets.

library(BioWorldR)

Dataset Suffixes

Each dataset in BioWorldR is labeled with a suffix to indicate its structure and type:

• _df: A data frame

• _list: A list

• _tbl_df: A tibble

Datasets Included in BioWorldR

These datasets encompass a wide variety of formats and content, including species occurrence records, trait measurements, ecological interactions, population dynamics, and conservation-related information. By centralizing well-documented examples, BioWorldR simplifies teaching, prototyping, reproducible workflows, and exploratory analyses in the biological sciences.

• Reptiles_df: This dataset contains the valid names and url addresses for all reptile species cataloged in The Reptile Database

• Gorillas_df: Chest-beating rates in Gorillas.

• Brain_animals: Brain weight versus body weight of 28 animals

Example Code:

# Load the package

library(BioWorldR)