R package for downloading functional traits data for plant species
Plant ecologists often need to collect "traits" data about plant species which are often scattered among various databases: TR8 contains a set of tools which take care of automatically retrieving some of those functional traits data for plant species from the following publicly available databases:
- Biolflor
- The Ecological Flora of the British Isles
- LEDA traitbase
- Ellenberg values for Italian Flora
- Mycorrhizal intensity database
- http://luirig.altervista.org/
- MycoFlor
- Catminat
A basic guide for using the package is provided in TR8.pdf
You can either install the stable relase of the package using the version available on CRAN:
install.packages(TR8,dependencies=TRUE)Or, if you want to try the devel version of the package hosted here, you will need devtools:
## install the package
install.packages("devtools")
## load it
library(devtools)
## activate dev_mode
dev_mode(on=T)
## install TR8
install_github("GioBo/TR8")
## load TR8
library(TR8)
## you can now work with TR8 functions
## if you want to go back and use the CRAN version
## already installed, simply deactivate dev_mode
dev_mode(on=F)