Working with Data from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants

A companion to the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP). It includes functions to generate maps and species lists, as well as match names to the WCVP. For more details and to cite the package, see: Brown M.J.M., Walker B.E., Black N., Govaerts R., Ondo I., Turner R., Nic Lughadha E. (2023). "rWCVP: A companion R package to the World Checklist of Vascular Plants". New Phytologist, 240: 1355-1365.

rWCVP

rWCVP is a package for accessing and using plant name and distribution data from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants

:warning: The next version of rWCVP is currently in active development - we will be back on CRAN soon! In the meantime, please install via GitHub (see below).

Installation

You can install the development version of rWCVP from GitHub with:

devtools::install_github("matildabrown/rWCVP")

It’s also best to install the most recent version of the accompanying data package, rWCVPdata:

devtools::install_github("matildabrown/rWCVPdata")

Example

rWCVP makes it easy to get and plot the known distribution of plant species.

library(rWCVP)

distribution <- wcvp_distribution("Myrcia guianensis", taxon_rank = "species")

# global map
wcvp_distribution_map(distribution)

# zoomed-in map
wcvp_distribution_map(distribution, crop_map = TRUE)