rcatfish: An R Interface to the California Academy of Sciences Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes

Accesses the California Academy of Sciences Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes in R using web requests. The Catalog of fishes is the leading authority in fish taxonomy. Functions in the package allow users to search for fish taxa and valid names, retrieve taxonomic references, retrieve monthly taxonomic changes, obtain natural history collection information, and see the number of species by taxonomic group. For more information on the Catalog: Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & R. van der Laan (eds) 2025. ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES <https://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp>.

Version:	1.0.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.4.0)
Imports:	curl (≥ 5.2.1), httr (≥ 1.4.7), jsonlite (≥ 1.8.9), lubridate (≥ 1.9.3), magrittr (≥ 2.0.3), qdapRegex (≥ 0.7.2), RCurl (≥ 1.95-4.11), rfishbase (≥ 5.0.0), rvest (≥ 0.3.2), stringr (≥ 1.3.1), tidyr (≥ 0.8.1), xml2 (≥ 1.2.0)
Suggests:	knitr, rmarkdown, testthat
Published:	2026-02-03
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.rcatfish
Author:	Samuel R. Borstein [aut, cre], Brandon Dominy [aut], Brian O'Meara [aut]
Maintainer:	Samuel R. Borstein <sam at borstein.com>
License:	GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
NeedsCompilation:	no
Citation:	rcatfish citation info
CRAN checks:	rcatfish results [issues need fixing before 2026-02-18]

Documentation:

Reference manual:	rcatfish.html , rcatfish.pdf
Vignettes:	rcatfish Tutorial (source)

Downloads:

Package source:	rcatfish_1.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): rcatfish_1.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): rcatfish_1.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): rcatfish_1.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): rcatfish_1.0.0.tgz

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