Description
Date accepted: 2023-05-22
Submitting Author Name: Joel H. Nitta
Submitting Author Github Handle: @joelnitta
Repository: https://github.com/joelnitta/dwctaxon
Version submitted: 1.0.0.9000
Submission type: Standard
Editor: @noamross
Reviewers: @collinschwantes, @sformel-usgs
Archive: TBD
Version accepted: TBD
Language: en
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Package: dwctaxon
Title: Tools for Working with Darwin Core Taxon Data
Version: 1.0.0.9000
Authors@R:
c(
person(given = "Joel H.",
family = "Nitta",
role = c("aut", "cre"),
email = "joelnitta@gmail.com",
comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-4719-7472")),
person(given = "Wataru",
family = "Iwasaki",
role = c("ctb"),
comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-9169-9245"))
)
Description: Provides functions to create, manipulate, and validate taxonomic
data in compliance with Darwin Core standards
(Darwin Core "Taxon" class https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/#taxon).
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
Roxygen: list(
markdown = TRUE,
roclets = c("collate", "namespace", "rd", "roxyglobals::global_roclet"))
RoxygenNote: 7.2.1
Imports:
assertr,
assertthat,
digest,
dplyr,
glue,
purrr,
rlang,
settings,
stringr,
tibble,
utils
Suggests:
testthat (>= 3.0.0),
roxyglobals (>= 0.2.1),
mockery,
readr,
usethis,
knitr,
rmarkdown,
tidyverse,
patrick,
stringi
Remotes:
anthonynorth/roxyglobals
Depends:
R (>= 2.10)
Config/testthat/edition: 3
URL: https://joelnitta.github.io/dwctaxon/,
https://github.com/joelnitta/dwctaxon
BugReports: https://github.com/joelnitta/dwctaxon/issues
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Scope
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Please indicate which category or categories from our package fit policies this package falls under: (Please check an appropriate box below. If you are unsure, we suggest you make a pre-submission inquiry.):
- data retrieval
- data extraction
- data munging
- data deposition
- data validation and testing
- workflow automation
- version control
- citation management and bibliometrics
- scientific software wrappers
- field and lab reproducibility tools
- database software bindings
- geospatial data
- text analysis
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Explain how and why the package falls under these categories (briefly, 1-2 sentences):
dwctaxon facilitates manipulating and validating taxonomic data (of biological species) in R, in compliance with the widely used Darwin Core data standard.
- Who is the target audience and what are scientific applications of this package?
Biologists, anybody working with taxonomic data in Darwin Core format.
- Are there other R packages that accomplish the same thing? If so, how does yours differ or meet our criteria for best-in-category?
Not currently, to the best of my knowledge. The closest thing out there is the GBIF data validator (not an R package). The archived finch package had a function to call the GBIF data validator.
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