Rfishbase: Exploring, manipulating and visualizing FishBase data from R

Journal of Fish Biology

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2030-2039

  Boettiger, C ^a   Lang, D T ^a   Wainwright, P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data access; Programmatic; Tutorial; XML

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FACTUAL DATABASE; FISH;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FISHES; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84868660148     PISSN: 00221112     EISSN: 10958649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2012.03464.x     Document Type: Article

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