Package: helminthR 1.1.0

Tad Dallas

helminthR: Access London Natural History Museum Host-Helminth Record Database

Access to large host-parasite data is often hampered by the availability of data and difficulty in obtaining it in a programmatic way to encourage analyses. 'helminthR' provides accesss to the London Natural History Museum's host-parasite database, one of the largest host-parasite databases existing currently.

Authors:Tad Dallas [aut, cre]

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NEWS

# Install 'helminthR' in R:

install.packages('helminthR', repos = c('https://ropensci.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/ropensci/helminthr/issues

Pkgdown/docs site:https://docs.ropensci.org

Datasets:

locations - Table of geographic location names, and associated coordinates

On CRAN:

disease-networks helminth open-data parasites

5.02 score 10 stars 14 scripts 39 downloads 1 mentions 2 exports 58 dependencies

Last updated from:02afebbb66 (on master). Checks:10 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Time
linux-devel-x86_64	OK	112
pkgdown docs	OK	144
source / vignettes	OK	198
linux-release-x86_64	OK	129
macos-release-arm64	OK	113
macos-oldrel-arm64	OK	105
windows-devel	OK	109
windows-release	OK	87
windows-oldrel	OK	72
wasm-release	OK	121

Exports:cleanData loadData

Dependencies:ape askpass cli cpp11 crayon crul curl data.table digest dplyr fastmatch generics glue hms httpcode httr igraph jsonlite lattice lifecycle magrittr Matrix mime natserv nlme openssl phangorn pillar pkgconfig plyr prettyunits progress quadprog R6 Rcpp rentrez ritis rlang rncl rotl rredlist solrium stringi sys taxize tibble tidyselect triebeard urltools utf8 vctrs WikipediR wikitaxa withr worrms XML xml2 zoo

Introduction to the helminthR package

Tad Dallas

Rendered fromhelminthR_vignette.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdownon Jun 05 2026.

Last update: 2025-06-24
Started: 2017-10-08

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Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help page	Topics
Access London Natural History Museum host-helminth record database	helminthR-package helminthR
Clean helminth parasite occurrence data	cleanData
Load the helminth interaction data	loadData
Table of geographic location names, and associated coordinates	locations