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Tools and services currently in the catalog represent only a fraction of those in use by active WMA projects. The team is working on including more to provide a better view of commonly used tools and services. Let us know about your experience using the catalog!

Tools

sbtools

Keywords: data access

Domain: Domain Agnostic

Language: R

Description:

ScienceBase is a USGS Trusted Digital Repository (TDR) that provides USGS scientists an online place to store and publish finalized science products. It provides end-users the ability to discover and consume these products via download and web services.
sbtools is an R package for making calls to the ScienceBase API.
Any of the thousands of datasets on ScienceBase are available through sbtools.

Citation:

Winslow, LA, S Chamberlain, AP Appling, and JS Read. 2016. sbtools: A package connecting R to cloud-based data for collaborative online research. The R Journal 8:387-398.

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