fwtraits: Extract Species Ecological Parameters from Www.freshwaterecology.info

Support the extraction and seamless integration of species ecological traits or preferences from the www.freshwaterecology.info into several ecological model workflows. During data extraction, different taxonomic levels are acceptable, including species, genus, and family, based on the availability of data in the database. The data is cached after the first search and can be accessed during and after online interactions. Only scientific names are acceptable in the search; local or English names are not allowed. A user API key is required to start using the package.

Version: 1.0.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: curl, httr2, jsonlite, methods, utils, rstudioapi, R.cache
Suggests: ggplot2, knitr (≥ 1.48), rmarkdown (≥ 2.28), sf, vcr, dplyr, tidytext, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), FD, tidyr, tibble, stats, cluster
Published: 2025-11-11
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.fwtraits (may not be active yet)
Author: Anthony Basooma ORCID iD [aut, cre], Florian Borgwardt ORCID iD [ctb, fnd], Thomas Hein ORCID iD [ctb, fnd, ths], Sami Domisch [ctb], Merret Buurman [ctb], Vanessa Bremerich [ctb], Sonia Steffany Recinos Brizuela [ctb], Martin Tschikof [ctb], Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber ORCID iD [ctb, fnd, dtc]
Maintainer: Anthony Basooma <anthony.basooma at boku.ac.at>
BugReports: https://github.com/AnthonyBasooma/fwtraits/issues
License: GPL (≥ 3)
URL: https://github.com/AnthonyBasooma/fwtraits, https://anthonybasooma.github.io/fwtraits/, https://github.com/AnthonyBasooma/fwtraits/releases/tag/V1.0.0
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README
CRAN checks: fwtraits results

Documentation:

Reference manual: fwtraits.html , fwtraits.pdf
Vignettes: How to handle the API key in public and private codes. (source, R code)
Retrieve data for taxomomic groups. (source, R code)
Computing functional diversity indices and community weighted means for fishes. (source, R code)
Compute functional dendogram from the ecological parameters. (source, R code)
Computing functional diversity indices and community weghted means for macroinvertebrates. (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: fwtraits_1.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): fwtraits_1.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): fwtraits_1.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): fwtraits_1.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): fwtraits_1.0.0.tgz

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