gbifdb

A high performance interface to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, 'GBIF'. In contrast to 'rgbif', which can access small subsets of 'GBIF' data through web-based queries to a central server, 'gbifdb' provides enhanced performance for R users performing large-scale analyses on servers and cloud computing providers, providing full support for arbitrary 'SQL' or 'dplyr' operations on the complete 'GBIF' data tables (now over 1 billion records, and over a terabyte in size). 'gbifdb' accesses a copy of the 'GBIF' data in 'parquet' format, which is already readily available in commercial computing clouds such as the Amazon Open Data portal and the Microsoft Planetary Computer, or can be accessed directly without downloading, or downloaded to any server with suitable bandwidth and storage space. The high-performance techniques for local and remote access are described in https://duckdb.org/why_duckdb and https://arrow.apache.org/docs/r/articles/fs.html respectively.

Last 30 days

This package has been downloaded 248 times in the last 30 days. Now we're getting somewhere! Enough downloads to populate a lively group chat. The following heatmap shows the distribution of downloads per day. Yesterday, it was downloaded 10 times.

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Last 365 days

This package has been downloaded 2,618 times in the last 365 days. Now we’re talking! This work is officially 'heard of in academic circles', just like those wild research papers on synthetic bananas. The day with the most downloads was Sep 11, 2024 with 29 downloads.

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