fishbc is an R package that provides provides raw and
curated data on the codes, classification and conservation status of
freshwater fishes in British Columbia. Marine fishes will be added in a
future release. It also include raw fish codes for BC Conservation Data
Centre and the Government of Alberta.
It contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia and the Open Government Licence - Alberta
To install the latest release from CRAN
install.packages("fishbc")To install the latest development version from GitHub
# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("poissonconsulting/fishbc")Get the curated freshwater fish of BC fish codes.
library(tibble) # for tidy printing
fishbc::freshwaterfish
#> # A tibble: 161 x 17
#> Code CommonName Class Order Family Genus Species Subspecies Species2 Extant
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <lgl>
#> 1 AF All Fish <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> TRUE
#> 2 SP Fish Unid… <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> TRUE
#> 3 SG Sturgeon … Acti… Acip… Acipe… Acip… <NA> <NA> <NA> TRUE
#> 4 GSG Green Stu… Acti… Acip… Acipe… Acip… mediro… <NA> <NA> TRUE
#> 5 WSG White Stu… Acti… Acip… Acipe… Acip… transm… <NA> <NA> TRUE
#> 6 SH American … Acti… Clup… Clupe… Alosa sapidi… <NA> <NA> TRUE
#> 7 SU Sucker (G… Acti… Cypr… Catos… <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> TRUE
#> 8 LSU Longnose … Acti… Cypr… Catos… Cato… catost… <NA> <NA> TRUE
#> 9 BSU Bridgelip… Acti… Cypr… Catos… Cato… columb… <NA> <NA> TRUE
#> 10 WSU White Suc… Acti… Cypr… Catos… Cato… commer… <NA> <NA> TRUE
#> # … with 151 more rows, and 7 more variables: Native <lgl>, Marine <lgl>,
#> # Yellow <lgl>, Blue <lgl>, Red <lgl>, CDCode <chr>, ABCode <chr>Get the common names for fish codes.
fishbc::fbc_common_name(c("AF", "WSG", NA, "AF", "NOTACODE"))
#> [1] "All Fish" "White Sturgeon" NA "All Fish"
#> [5] NAPlease report any issues.
Pull requests are always welcome.
Please note that the fishbc project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.