# R package rinat. User experiences?

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**Created:** [March 5, 2021, 5:14am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/r-package-rinat-user-experiences/20852 "2021-03-05T05:14:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 7:19am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/r-package-rinat-user-experiences/20852/3 "2021-03-05T07:19:01Z")

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See this thread for a discussion (about 9 months old):  
[https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inaturalist-user-trends-with-r/12538](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inaturalist-user-trends-with-r/12538)

In general, rinat is outdated, using only the v1 iNat API. It is still being (slowly) worked on at ropensci ([https://github.com/ropensci/rinat](https://github.com/ropensci/rinat)). In general, if you are wanting to do biodiversity work with iNat data, working with the data exported to GBIF via GBIF tools (e.g., rgbif) which are better developed and maintained.

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