simsbc provides access to biodiversity data and survey information from British Columbia’s Species Inventory Management System (SIMS).
SIMS is a web application for managing, sharing, and accessing fish and wildlife data in British Columbia. It is designed for biologists working for or in partnership with the Province.
The simsbc R package complements the web application by loading SIMS data directly into R, removing the need to download and share data using intermediate files. The package also makes it easy to build R Shiny applications involving data from SIMS.
Installation
You can install simsbc from GitHub using the remotes package.
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("bcgov/simsbc")
library(simsbc)Roadmap
We are building rapidly towards letting biologists import species observations to SIMS, after which we will build functions for retrieving species observations.
Getting Help or Reporting an Issue
To report bugs/issues/feature requests, please file an issue.
How to Contribute
If you would like to contribute to the package, please see our CONTRIBUTING guidelines.
Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.
License
Copyright 2023 Province of British Columbia
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.This project was created using the bcgovr package.