Package: BIEN
Title: Tools for Accessing the Botanical Information and Ecology
Network Database
Version: 1.2.8
Authors@R: person("Brian", "Maitner", email = "bmaitner@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre"))
Description: Provides Tools for Accessing the Botanical Information and
Ecology Network Database. The BIEN database contains cleaned
and standardized botanical data including occurrence, trait,
plot and taxonomic data (See
for more Information). This
package provides functions that query the BIEN database by
constructing and executing optimized SQL queries.
Depends: R (>= 4.1.0), RPostgreSQL
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Imports: DBI, ape, sf, terra, doParallel, parallel, foreach
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat, curl, maps
VignetteBuilder: knitr
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
Encoding: UTF-8
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-06-11 07:35:31 UTC; root
Author: Brian Maitner [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Brian Maitner
Config/pak/sysreqs: libabsl-dev cmake libgdal-dev gdal-bin libgeos-dev
libssl-dev libproj-dev libsqlite3-dev libudunits2-dev
Repository: https://bmaitner.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-04-30 09:31:26 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/cran/BIEN
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 2cffd4a2b529137324a432026facc959cf1efd17