Package: traits 0.6.0

David LeBauer

traits: Species Trait Data from Around the Web

Species trait data from many sources, including sequence data from NCBI (<https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/>), plant traits from BETYdb, and data from EOL Traitbank and BirdLife International.

Authors:David LeBauer [aut, cre], Scott Chamberlain [aut, cph], Zachary Foster [aut], Ignasi Bartomeus [aut], Chris Black [aut], David Harris [aut], Rupert Collins [ctb]

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NEWS

# Install 'traits' in R:

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

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

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

Datasets:

plantatt - PLANTATT plant traits dataset

On CRAN:

traits api web-services species taxonomy biodiversity ecology environmental-data species-traits api-client

6.74 score 41 stars 84 scripts 69 downloads 19 exports 69 dependencies

Last updated from:b07eea0301 (on master). Checks:10 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Time
linux-devel-x86_64	OK	160
pkgdown docs	OK	172
source / vignettes	OK	206
linux-release-x86_64	OK	173
macos-devel-arm64	OK	103
macos-release-arm64	OK	121
windows-devel	OK	102
windows-release	OK	91
windows-oldrel	OK	93
wasm-release	OK	140

Exports:betydb_citation betydb_experiment betydb_query betydb_record betydb_search betydb_site betydb_specie betydb_trait birdlife_habitat birdlife_threats leda ncbi_byid ncbi_byname ncbi_searcher taxa_search tr_ernest tr_zanne traitbank traits_cache

Dependencies:ape askpass bit bit64 cli clipr cpp11 crayon crul curl data.table digest dplyr fastmatch generics glue hms hoardr httpcode httr igraph jsonlite lattice lifecycle magrittr Matrix mime natserv nlme openssl phangorn pillar pkgconfig plyr prettyunits progress quadprog R6 rappdirs Rcpp readr rentrez ritis rlang rncl rotl rredlist rvest selectr solrium stringi stringr sys taxize tibble tidyselect triebeard tzdb urltools utf8 vctrs vroom WikipediR wikitaxa withr worrms XML xml2 zoo

BETYdb Tutorial

Scott Chamberlain

Rendered frombetydb.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdownon Mar 20 2026.

Last update: 2020-08-25
Started: 2015-02-01

traits introduction

Scott Chamberlain

Rendered fromtraits.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdownon Mar 20 2026.

Last update: 2020-08-26
Started: 2019-06-06

Citation

Development and contributors

Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help page	Topics
Search for traits from BETYdb	betydb betydb_citation betydb_experiment betydb_record betydb_site betydb_specie betydb_trait
Query a BETY table	betydb_query betydb_search
Get bird habitat information from BirdLife/IUCN	birdlife_habitat
Get bird threat information from BirdLife/IUCN	birdlife_threats
Access LEDA trait data	leda
Retrieve gene sequences from NCBI by accession number.	ncbi_byid
Retrieve gene sequences from NCBI by taxon name and gene names.	ncbi_byname
Search for gene sequences available for taxa from NCBI.	ncbi_searcher
PLANTATT plant traits dataset	plantatt
Search for traits by taxa names	taxa_search
Amniote life history dataset	tr_ernest
Zanne et al. plant dataset	tr_zanne
Search for traits from EOL's Traitbank	traitbank
Caching	traits_cache
Defunct functions in traits	traits-defunct