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

Datasets:

locations - Table of geographic location names, and associated coordinates

On CRAN:

disease-networks helminth open-data parasites

5.15 score 10 stars 14 scripts 59 downloads 1 mentions 2 exports 58 dependencies

Last updated from:02afebbb66 (on master). Checks:10 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Time
linux-devel-x86_64	OK	125
pkgdown docs	OK	152
source / vignettes	OK	174
linux-release-x86_64	OK	136
macos-release-arm64	OK	112
macos-oldrel-arm64	OK	95
windows-devel	OK	125
windows-release	OK	75
windows-oldrel	OK	82
wasm-release	OK	149

Exports:cleanData loadData

Dependencies:ape askpass cli cpp11 crayon crul curl data.table digest dplyr fastmatch generics glue hms httpcode httr igraph jsonlite lattice lifecycle magrittr Matrix mime natserv nlme openssl phangorn pillar pkgconfig plyr prettyunits progress quadprog R6 Rcpp rentrez ritis rlang rncl rotl rredlist solrium stringi sys taxize tibble tidyselect triebeard urltools utf8 vctrs WikipediR wikitaxa withr worrms XML xml2 zoo

Introduction to the helminthR package

Tad Dallas

Rendered fromhelminthR_vignette.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdownon May 06 2026.

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