rfishbase compendium: Publication, R package, version history

<p>rfishbase<br>=========</p> <p>_Accessing data from FishBase using R_</p> <p>'rfishbase' is a package for interfacing with the [fishbase.org](http://fishbase.org) database. It provides code to download and parse a local copy of fishbase, which can be used for rapid access for a variety of analysis functions.</p> <p>- [Published copy in Journal of Fish Biology](http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8649.2012.03464.x)</p> <p>- [Development version source code on github](https://github.com/ropensci/rfishbase)<br>- [HTML package documentation](http://ropensci.github.com/rfishbase/)<br>- [Report issues, bugs or feature requests](https://github.com/ropensci/rfishbase/issues)</p> <p>Installation<br>------------</p> <p>'rfishbase' is available [on CRAN](http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rfishbase/) and can be installed through the R package manager (see 'install.packages'). The latest (development) version is hosted here on github, and can be installed using the [devtools](https://github.com/hadley/devtools) package:</p> <p>'''r<br>library(devtools)<br>install_github("rfishbase", "ropensci")<br>'''</p> <p>Getting started<br>---------------</p> <p>- Read our [tutorial](https://github.com/ropensci/rfishbase/blob/master/inst/doc/rfishbase/rfishbase_github.md)<br>- Browse the examples in the [documentation](http://ropensci.github.com/rfishbase/)</p> <p>'rfishbase' is developed by [Carl Boettiger](https://github.com/cboettig) in collaboration with [Duncan Temple Lang](https://github.com/duncantl) and Peter Wainwright, and is part of the [rOpenSci project](http://github.com/ropensci). This software, examples, and documentation are freely provided under the [CC0 license](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).</p> <p>A [preprint](https://github.com/ropensci/rfishbase/blob/master/inst/doc/rfishbase/rfishbase_github.md) of our manuscript introducing the package can be found in the [inst/doc](https://github.com/ropensci/rfishbase/tree/master/inst/doc) directory.</p> <p>References<br>----------</p> <p>Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2011. FishBase.<br>World Wide Web electronic publication.<br>www.fishbase.org, version (08/2011).</p> <p>