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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.

Version: 0.6.0
Depends: R (≥ 2.10)
Imports: crul (≥ 0.6.0), data.table (≥ 1.9.6), hoardr, httr (≥ 1.1.0), jsonlite (≥ 0.9.19), readr (≥ 1.1.1), rvest (≥ 0.3.1), taxize (≥ 0.7.4), tibble (≥ 1.3.4), xml2 (≥ 0.1.2)
Suggests: dplyr, knitr, plyr, rmarkdown, testthat
Published: 2026-04-10
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.traits
Author: David LeBauer ORCID iD [aut, cre], Scott Chamberlain ORCID iD [aut, cph], Zachary Foster [aut], Ignasi Bartomeus [aut], Chris Black [aut], David Harris [aut], Rupert Collins [ctb]
Maintainer: David LeBauer <dlebauer at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/ropensci/traits/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://docs.ropensci.org/traits/, https://github.com/ropensci/traits
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: traits citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: traits results

Documentation:

Reference manual: traits.html , traits.pdf
Vignettes: BETYdb Tutorial (source)
traits introduction (source)

Downloads:

Package source: traits_0.6.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available
Old sources: traits archive

Linking:

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