paleobioDB: Download and Process Data from the Paleobiology Database

Includes functions to wrap most endpoints of the 'PaleobioDB' API and to visualize and process the obtained fossil data. The API documentation for the Paleobiology Database can be found at <https://paleobiodb.org/data1.2/>.

Version: 1.0.1
Imports: curl, jsonlite, maps, terra
Suggests: roxygen2, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2025-08-27
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.paleobioDB
Author: Sara Varela ORCID iD [aut], Javier González Hernández [aut], Luciano Fabris Sgarbi ORCID iD [aut], Adrián Castro Insua ORCID iD [cre, ctb]
Maintainer: Adrián Castro Insua <adrian.castro.insua at uvigo.gal>
BugReports: https://github.com/ropensci/paleobioDB/issues
License: GPL-2
URL: https://docs.ropensci.org/paleobioDB/, https://github.com/ropensci/paleobioDB
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: paleobioDB citation info
Materials: README
In views: Paleontology
CRAN checks: paleobioDB results

Documentation:

Reference manual: paleobioDB.html , paleobioDB.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: paleobioDB_1.0.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: paleobioDB_1.0.1.zip, r-release: paleobioDB_1.0.1.zip, r-oldrel: paleobioDB_1.0.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): paleobioDB_1.0.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): paleobioDB_1.0.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): paleobioDB_1.0.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): paleobioDB_1.0.1.tgz
Old sources: paleobioDB archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse suggests: evolved

Linking:

Please use the canonical form https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=paleobioDB to link to this page.