galaxias: Describe, Package, and Share Biodiversity Data

The Darwin Core data standard is widely used to share biodiversity information, most notably by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and its partner nodes; but converting data to this standard can be tricky. 'galaxias' is functionally similar to 'devtools', but with a focus on building Darwin Core Archives rather than R packages, enabling data to be shared and re-used with relative ease. For details see Wieczorek and colleagues (2012) <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029715>.

Version: 0.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.3.0), corella
Imports: cli, delma, dplyr, fs, glue, httr2, jsonlite, purrr, readr, rlang, tibble, usethis, withr, zip
Suggests: gt, here, janitor, knitr, lubridate, rmarkdown, R.utils, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), tidyr, xml2
Published: 2025-07-07
Author: Martin Westgate [aut, cre], Shandiya Balasubramaniam [aut], Dax Kellie [aut]
Maintainer: Martin Westgate <martin.westgate at csiro.au>
BugReports: https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/galaxias/issues
License: MPL-2.0
URL: https://galaxias.ala.org.au/R/
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: galaxias citation info
Materials: README NEWS
CRAN checks: galaxias results

Documentation:

Reference manual: galaxias.pdf
Vignettes: Standardise an Event dataset (source, R code)
Standardise an Occurrence dataset (source, R code)
Quick start guide (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: galaxias_0.1.0.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): galaxias_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): galaxias_0.1.0.tgz

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