/rWCVP

Generating Summaries, Reports and Plots from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants

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rWCVP

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rWCVP is a package for accessing and using plant name and distribution data from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Installation

You can install the development version of rWCVP from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
devtools::install_github("matildabrown/rWCVP")

Example

rWCVP makes it easy to get and plot the known distribution of plant species.

library(rWCVP)

distribution <- wcvp_distribution("Myrcia guianensis", taxon_rank = "species")

# global map
wcvp_distribution_map(distribution)

# zoomed-in map
wcvp_distribution_map(distribution, crop_map = TRUE)