Package: helminthR 1.1.0

Tad Dallas

helminthR: Access London Natural History Museum Host-Helminth Record Database

Access to large host-parasite data is often hampered by the availability of data and difficulty in obtaining it in a programmatic way to encourage analyses. 'helminthR' provides accesss to the London Natural History Museum's host-parasite database, one of the largest host-parasite databases existing currently.

Authors:Tad Dallas [aut, cre]

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NEWS

# Install 'helminthR' in R:

install.packages('helminthR', repos = c('https://packages.ropensci.org', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/ropensci/helminthr/issues

Pkgdown site:https://docs.ropensci.org

Datasets:

locations - Table of geographic location names, and associated coordinates

On CRAN:

disease-networks helminth open-data parasites

4.94 score 9 stars 13 scripts 81 downloads 1 mentions 2 exports 115 dependencies

Last updated from:9694f0308e (on master). Checks:10 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Total time
linux-devel-x86_64	OK	138
pkgdown docs	OK	169
source / vignettes	OK	208
linux-release-x86_64	OK	136
macos-release-arm64	OK	93
macos-oldrel-arm64	OK	115
windows-devel	OK	88
windows-release	OK	71
windows-oldrel	OK	112
wasm-release	OK	137

Exports:cleanData loadData

Dependencies:ape askpass assertthat backports base64enc bit bit64 bslib cachem checkmate cli clipr cluster colorspace cpp11 crayon crul curl data.table digest dplyr evaluate farver fastmap fastmatch fontawesome foreign Formula fs generics ggplot2 glue gridExtra gtable highr Hmisc hms htmlTable htmltools htmlwidgets httpcode httr igraph isoband jquerylib jsonlite knitr labeling lattice lazyeval lifecycle magrittr MASS Matrix memoise mgcv mime natserv nlme nnet openssl pbapply phangorn pillar pkgconfig plyr prettyunits progress purrr quadprog R6 rappdirs ratelimitr RColorBrewer Rcpp readr rentrez rex ritis rlang rmarkdown rncl rotl rpart rredlist rstudioapi sass scales solrium stringi stringr sys taxize tibble tidyselect tinytex triebeard tzdb urltools utf8 vctrs viridis viridisLite vroom WikidataQueryServiceR WikidataR WikipediR wikitaxa withr worrms xfun XML xml2 yaml zoo

Introduction to the helminthR package

Tad Dallas

Rendered fromhelminthR_vignette.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdownon Aug 23 2025.

Last update: 2025-06-24
Started: 2017-10-08

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Development and contributors

Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help page	Topics
Access London Natural History Museum host-helminth record database	helminthR-package helminthR
Clean helminth parasite occurrence data	cleanData
Load the helminth interaction data	loadData
Table of geographic location names, and associated coordinates	locations