suwo: access nature media repositories through R

suwo is intended streamline searching/downloading of nature media files (e.g. audios, photos) from online repositories.

suwo offers functions for critical steps in the acquisition of data necessary to develop methods that require a large amount of data.

The main features of the package are:

• Obtaining media metadata from online repositories
• Downloading associated media files
• Updating data sets with new records

THE PACKAGE IS ON AN EARLY DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE. We are currently searching for new online repositories to be included in the package. Please open a new issue if you want to suggest a new repository.

Installing suwo

Install/load the package from CRAN as follows:

# From CRAN would be
# install.packages("suwo")

# load package
library(suwo)

To install the latest developmental version from github you will need the R package remotes:

remotes::install_github("maRce10/suwo")

#load package
library(suwo)

Please cite suwo as follows:

Araya-Salas, M., & Elizondo-Calvo, J. 2023. suwo: access nature media repositories through R. R package version 0.1.0.