My little presentation on getting web data through R
With examples from rOpenSci R packages. p.s. I am no expert at this... Web data from R View more presentations from schamber
ITIS
searching ITIS and fetching Phylomatic trees
I am writing a set of functions to search ITIS for taxonomic information (more databases to come) and functions to fetch plant phylogenetic trees from Phylomatic. Code at github. Also, see the examples in the demos folder on the Github site above.