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

5.11 score 10 stars 13 scripts 53 downloads 1 mentions 2 exports 113 dependencies

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

Target	Result	Total time
linux-devel-x86_64	OK	151
pkgdown docs	OK	165
source / vignettes	OK	192
linux-release-x86_64	OK	135
macos-devel-arm64	OK	106
macos-release-arm64	OK	108
windows-devel	OK	71
windows-release	OK	76
windows-oldrel	OK	84
wasm-release	OK	147

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 Matrix memoise 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 S7 sass scales solrium stringi stringr sys taxize tibble tidyselect tinytex triebeard tzdb urltools utf8 vctrs 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 Feb 05 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