- Authors: Gill, Darian; Regetz, Jim (0009-0008-2666-6229);
- License: Apache 2
- Package source code on GitHub
- Submit Bugs and feature requests
This package is an web access point for VegBank, the vegetation plot database of the Ecological Society of America's Panel on Vegetation Classification, hosted by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS). VegBank contains vegetation plot data, community types recognized by the U.S. National Vegetation Classification and others, and all ITIS/USDA plant taxa along with other taxa recorded in plot records. As a VegBank API client, the 'vegbankweb' package supports browsing, searching, and inspecting vegetation plot records and other supporting information in the VegBank database.
VegBank in general, and the vegbankweb package in particular, are open source, community projects. We welcome contributions in many forms, including code, data, documentation, bug reports, testing, etc. Use the VegBank Discussions, or email [email protected] to discuss these contributions with us.
This is a Shiny App built using the Shiny R package.
The app is currently configured to hit the vegbankr package and underlying vegbank2 api for data.
To run the app locally, you'll need to install R and download this repository.
Then, create a .Renviron file in the root directory of the repository and set the R_CONFIG_FILE envirionment variable in it to the absolute path of a valid config.yml file, and select the configuration in that file by sepecifying the R_CONFIG_ACTIVE environmental variable.
For example, to select the production configuration in the /inst/config.yml file included with this repository, add something like:
# vegbank-web/.Renviron
# Your absolute path to inst/config.yml will be different
R_CONFIG_FILE="/Users/yourUserName/git/vegbank-web/inst/config.yml"
R_CONFIG_ACTIVE="production"
Finally run the following commands in your IDE terminal:
~ % R
# or use `devtools::load_all()` if you prefer
~ remotes::install_github("NCEAS/vegbank-web")
~ % vegbankweb::run_app()
Copyright [2025] [Regents of the University of California]
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Work on this package was supported by:
- California Department of Fish and Wildlife
- The ESA Panel on Vegetation Classification
Additional support was provided for collaboration by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, a Center funded by the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the State of California.
