Software

R packages I develop or help maintain. Most are on CRAN and can be installed with install.packages(). More code from the lab is on the Maitner Lab GitHub.

Biodiversity data access

  • BIEN: tools for accessing the Botanical Information and Ecology Network database: plant occurrences, traits, plots, and range maps. CRAN · GitHub · paper
  • OpenRange: access open species range maps. CRAN · GitHub

Biodiversity data cleaning

R interfaces to the BIEN data-cleaning services:

  • TNRS: Taxonomic Name Resolution Service, which corrects and standardizes plant names. CRAN · GitHub
  • GNRS: Geographic Name Resolution Service, which standardizes country, state, and county names. CRAN · GitHub · paper
  • NSR: Native Status Resolver, which flags whether a species is native or introduced in a region. CRAN · GitHub
  • GVS: Geocoordinate Validation Service, which checks occurrence coordinates for common errors. CRAN · GitHub

Analysis

  • S4DM: species distribution modeling with small sample sizes. CRAN · GitHub · paper
  • traitstrap: bootstrapping trait distributions from community data. CRAN · GitHub · paper

Open Science

  • citeR: finds the R packages used in your code so you can cite them. GitHub

Just for fun

  • transformerpalettes: color palettes inspired by Transformers toys, cartoons, and comics. CRAN · website