ALA4R is deprecated; we suggest you use galah instead available on CRAN. galah provides an improved interface to ALA data, while providing the same core functionality as ALA4R. For an introduction to galah, visit the GitHub page.

The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) provides tools to enable users of biodiversity information to find, access, combine and visualise data on Australian plants and animals; these have been made available from https://www.ala.org.au/. Here we provide a subset of the tools to be directly used within R.

ALA4R enables the R community to directly access data and resources hosted by the ALA.

The use-examples presented at the 2014 ALA Science Symposium are available in the package vignette, via (in R): vignette("ALA4R"), or browse it online.

ALA4R is available from GitHub:

install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("AtlasOfLivingAustralia/ALA4R")

On Linux you will first need to ensure that libcurl and v8 (version <= 3.15) are installed on your system — e.g. on Ubuntu/Debian, open a terminal and do:

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev libv8-3.14-dev

or install via the Software Centre.

See the online documentation at https://atlasoflivingaustralia.github.io/ALA4R/ including the package vignette.

To generate a citation for ALA4R run:

citation(package = "ALA4R")