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type: software
license: MIT
title: 'rgbif: Interface to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility API'
version: 3.8.4.5
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.rgbif
abstract: A programmatic interface to the Web Service methods provided by the Global
  Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF; <https://www.gbif.org/developer/summary>).
  GBIF is a database of species occurrence records from sources all over the globe.
  rgbif includes functions for searching for taxonomic names, retrieving information
  on data providers, getting species occurrence records, getting counts of occurrence
  records, and using the GBIF tile map service to make rasters summarizing huge amounts
  of data.
authors:
- family-names: Chamberlain
  given-names: Scott
- family-names: Oldoni
  given-names: Damiano
- family-names: Waller
  given-names: John
  email: jwaller@gbif.org
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'rgbif: Interface to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility API'
  authors:
  - family-names: Chamberlain
    given-names: Scott
  - family-names: Barve
    given-names: Vijay
  - family-names: Mcglinn
    given-names: Dan
  - family-names: Oldoni
    given-names: Damiano
  - family-names: Desmet
    given-names: Peter
  - family-names: Geffert
    given-names: Laurens
  - family-names: Ram
    given-names: Karthik
  year: '2026'
  notes: R package version 3.8.4.5
  url: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rgbif
repository: https://ropensci.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/ropensci/rgbif
commit: 0485c20b4261b5b3160377cb8909fecd658445b2
url: https://docs.ropensci.org/rgbif/
date-released: '2026-01-16'
contact:
- family-names: Waller
  given-names: John
  email: jwaller@gbif.org
keywords:
- GBIF
- specimens
- API
- web-services
- occurrences
- species
- taxonomy
references:
- type: article
  title: R Python, and Ruby clients for GBIF species occurrence data
  authors:
  - family-names: Chamberlain
    given-names: Scott
  - family-names: Boettiger
    given-names: Carl
  journal: PeerJ PrePrints
  year: '2017'
  publisher:
    name: PeerJ, Inc.
  url: https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3304v1