is there a forum or location for iNat programmers to share R scripts? Recently a bioblitz was held locally and i was asked if there was a way to track volunteer effort. My R scripts are rusty but i do know that it is possible to access the iNat dbase directly (as opposed to downloading all the rec…

No, but at one point I suggested a wiki to hold tools/code etc (not just R) be created to centralize this stuff, so since no one else took it on: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/wiki-external-code-tools-etc-for-working-with-inat/15906/2

I don’t know that they are gathered in one spot yet, but here are a number of topics that discuss R script uses. https://forum.inaturalist.org/search?q=R%20script In the meantime, Perhaps, you can message one of the posters and discuss your interests?

Since the iNat code itself is stored on GitHub, why not a GitHub repository? Code can be forked easily and improved by others in the community.

Welcome to the Forum, @mkeaveney

What would be nice is a CRAN package for porting iNat data into R. Analogous packages exist for various other online databases, e.g. federal census data, USGS land cover data. That would be a worthwhile project for somebody to take on.

i thought that there was a CRAN option. similiar to eBird, GBIF, OBIS but i might be out of date.

I have an R package on GitHub that I have not yet put on CRAN as I finalize more functions, but that can port iNat data into R. The function and API arguments are here with some examples at the end: https://rdrr.io/github/pjhanly/iNatTools/man/iNat.html This function will run an API query for obser…

Another function I put on GitHub is one to sum the effort of observers within a data frame (e.g., a project): https://rdrr.io/github/pjhanly/iNatTools/man/sampling_effort.html This function takes the data frame from above and sums the total time observing and distance traveled per observer for each…

See related discussion here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/using-r-to-extract-observations-of-a-specific-phenological-state/7007

Awesome work, Patrick! Do you foresee increasing the 10K download limit? Another feature that I could imagine being useful is some sort of randomized subsampling approach that would allow you to use broad query parameters without ending up with an unwieldy amount of data. For example, I might have a…

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