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pacha is an R package designed to query and report on
taxonomic and ethnobotanical checklist data. It provides functions to
query the ‘Listado de plantas de uso y aprovechamiento sostenible en
Ecuador’ checklist (doi:10.48580/dgvrn)—retrieved
via ChecklistBank or a local Catalogue of Life Data Package (ColDP)
archive—and generates Markdown reports for reproducible workflows. Built
on the flexible ColDP schema, the package can be pointed at any
ChecklistBank-compatible dataset beyond the Ecuador checklist, complete
with support for extensible language dictionaries.
All user-facing results default to Spanish; language dictionaries are
read dynamically from inst/lang/*.yml, so adding a language
is a matter of dropping in a new file rather than changing code — set
your language with pacha_configure().
Query functions (common_names_pacha(),
establishment_pacha(),
sustainable_uses_pacha(),
threat_status_pacha(), reference_pacha(),
is_listed(), pacha_sc_full_name(),
compare_pacha()) return plain data/text. Markdown-formatted
reports for direct inclusion in documents are produced by
pacha_report().
Install the latest development version from GitHub:
install.packages("pak")
pak::pkg_install("envinatu/pacha")library(pacha)Resolve the accepted scientific name:
pacha_sc_full_name("Bidens andicola")Check whether the species is present in the checklist. Setting
detailed = TRUE additionally returns its sustainable-use
records:
is_listed("Bidens andicola")
is_listed("Bidens andicola", detailed = TRUE)Retrieve individual pieces of information about the species, such as common names and establishment status:
common_names_pacha("Bidens andicola")
establishment_pacha("Bidens andicola")
sustainable_uses_pacha("Bidens andicola", use = "medicinal")Generate a single Markdown block combining the scientific name, common names, and sustainable uses, ready to be inserted into a Quarto or R Markdown document:
pacha_report("Bidens andicola")Retrieve the citation for the dataset:
reference_pacha()pacha_configure() also exposes language
(see above), fetcher (swap the underlying HTTP client,
e.g. for testing or caching), use_exclude_pattern and
labels (control which taxa/fields are filtered or how
they’re labelled), source and timeout (network
request timeout). See ?pacha_configure for the full
argument reference.
The package is a query client and does not redistribute underlying
datasets. Users are responsible for complying with source licenses,
terms of use, and proper citation requirements for any dataset queried
through pacha. Results may vary or change as remote
services and underlying data sources are updated.
Contributions that generalize dataset-specific assumptions, add
wrappers to the indexation_urls_pacha() family for other
indices, or expand inst/lang/*.yml with new languages are
very welcome.
Please note that the pacha project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.
These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
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