paleobioDB: an R package for downloading, visualizing and processing data from the Paleobiology Database
paleobioDB: an R package for downloading, visualizing and processing data from the Paleobiology Database
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PaleobioDB：一个 R 包，用于从古生物学数据库下载、可视化和处理数据
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2015
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Michael McClennen
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Sara Varela;J. González;L. F. Sgarbi;C. Marshall;M. Uhen;S. Peters;Michael McClennen
化石记录就像一台时间机器，提供了关于古代物种的形态、生态和地理分布的数据。因此，在理想的情况下，化石数据应包括在进化，宏观生态学和地理学研究。然而，古生物学数据通常不用于生物学研究，部分原因是难以从原始文献中提取发生记录。古生物学数据库的目标是使这些记录普遍可访问，但与Genbank和GBIF等数据库不同，R计算环境的现成接口尚未提供。我们已经开发了paleobioDB，一个R软件包，旨在执行简单和灵活的查询古生物学数据库，包括可视化，下载和处理选定的数据。这个包方便了对古生物学数据的访问，应该允许使用R中可用的其他包和库进行进一步的分析。paleobioDB包应该促进古生物学和新生物学数据集的整合，以便来自过去深处的数据可以用来帮助我们了解生物群，反之亦然。
The fossil record acts as a time machine, providing data on the morphology, ecology and biogeography of ancient species. Therefore, ideally, fossil data should be included in evolutionary, macroecological and biogeographical studies. However, paleontological data are often not used in biological research, in part because of the difficulty of extracting occurrence records from the primary literature. The goal of the Paleobiology Database is to make these records generally accessible, but unlike databases such as Genbank and GBIF, a ready-made interface to the R computing environment has not been available. We have developed paleobioDB, an R package designed to perform easy and flexible queries of the Paleobiology Database, including visualization, downloading and processing of selected data. This package facilitates access to paleontological data in a way that should allow further analysis using other packages and libraries available in R. The paleobioDB package should facilitate the integration of paleontological and neontological datasets, so that data from the deep past can be used to help inform our understanding of living biota, and vice versa.