Package: gbifdb
Version: 1.0.0.99
Title: High Performance Interface to 'GBIF'
Description: A high performance interface to the Global Biodiversity
        Information Facility, 'GBIF'.  In contrast to 'rgbif', which
        can access small subsets of 'GBIF' data through web-based
        queries to a central server, 'gbifdb' provides enhanced
        performance for R users performing large-scale analyses on
        servers and cloud computing providers, providing full support
        for arbitrary 'SQL' or 'dplyr' operations on the complete
        'GBIF' data tables (now over 1 billion records, and over a
        terabyte in size). 'gbifdb' accesses a copy of the 'GBIF' data
        in 'parquet' format, which is already readily available in
        commercial computing clouds such as the Amazon Open Data portal
        and the Microsoft Planetary Computer, or can be accessed
        directly without downloading, or downloaded to any server with
        suitable bandwidth and storage space. The high-performance
        techniques for local and remote access are described in
        <https://duckdb.org/why_duckdb> and
        <https://arrow.apache.org/docs/r/articles/fs.html>
        respectively.
Authors@R: c(
            person("Carl", "Boettiger", , "cboettig@gmail.com", c("aut", "cre"),
                   comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-1642-628X")),
            person("Marc-Olivier", "Beausoleil", , "marc-olivier.beausoleil@mail.mcgill.ca", c("ctb"),
                   comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-3717-3223"))
            )
License: Apache License (>= 2)
Encoding: UTF-8
ByteCompile: true
Depends: R (>= 4.0)
Imports: arrow (>= 8.0.0), dplyr, duckdbfs
Suggests: spelling, dbplyr, testthat (>= 3.0.0), covr, knitr,
        rmarkdown, minioclient
URL: https://docs.ropensci.org/gbifdb/,
        https://github.com/ropensci/gbifdb
BugReports: https://github.com/ropensci/gbifdb
Language: en-US
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
Config/testthat/edition: 3
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Config/pak/sysreqs: cmake make libicu-dev libuv1-dev libssl-dev
        xz-utils
Repository: https://ropensci.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2025-09-14 18:53:02 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/ropensci/gbifdb
RemoteRef: main
RemoteSha: 12490ac39abc2f859937a2dc2bbfff3f378959ac
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-06-14 07:44:51 UTC; root
Author: Carl Boettiger [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1642-628X>),
  Marc-Olivier Beausoleil [ctb] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3717-3223>)
Maintainer: Carl Boettiger <cboettig@gmail.com>