Reol: R interface to the Encyclopedia of Life.

ABSTRACT: The Encyclopedia of Life is a website that hosts information about life on Earth. Its mission is to increase awareness and understanding of living nature through a freely accessible digital source. Information is publicly available through graphical webpages (browser interface) or through an application programming interface (API). We developed Reol, an open-source package for the R environment, which downloads data from the EOL API, searches for and extracts specific information, and builds tables with quantitative data and/or hierarchical classifications. We provide a detailed description how Reol can be used as a bridge between the R environment and the EOL API to extract quantitative or hierarchical content. It will be particularly useful for researchers who want information about taxo

SUBMITTER: Banbury BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4203299 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature