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  1. 🚀 #rgbif 3.8.5 ➡️New release!

    Explore new functions for accessing GBIF occurrence download statistics including:
    🔹retrieving summarized download statistics
    🔹exporting download summaries
    🔹getting downloads by user country
    🔹getting downloaded records by dataset and more.

    🐛 Additionally, multiple bug fixes and minor improvements are now also available through this release.

    🔗: gbif.link/rgbif-385

  2. R you ready for #rgbif version 3.8.3?! 🤩

    What's new?
    ⏱️ repeated occ_search() calls will now pause for 5 seconds, encouraging users to instead use occ_download() for accessing occurrence records
    🔎 installation_search() and collection_search() updates

    Learn more: 🔗 docs.ropensci.org/rgbif/news/i

  3. ⚡ New version of #rgbif has just been released to CRAN!

    Version 3.8.2 new features:
    🔹occ_download_doi() accepts a GBIF download DOI and returns the download key. occ_download() now supports download via institutionKey.

    🐞 bug fixes: Fixed double import bug in occ_download_import(). Fixed URL encoding bug in name_backbone_checklist().

    See more: 🔗docs.ropensci.org/rgbif/news/i

  4. 🍄 Have you got a bright idea 💡 for the @WorldBank #BiodiversityHackathon?

    If you're looking for some inspiration for novel ways to use biodiversity data, check our our latest #GBIFDataBlog post! 📊

    🔍 GBIF has developed an experimental method to download species occurrence records from the GBIF database in SQL (Structured Query Language) format!

    👀 SQL downloads are also supported by #rgbif!

    🔗 docs.ropensci.org/rgbif/articl

    Hackathon info: buff.ly/4dXJz00

  5. R you ready for an #rgbif update? Version 3.8.1 📦 is on #CRAN now!
    👀 New features:
    ◼️ New function occ_download_sql() for downloading occurrence data using SQL queries
    🐞 Bug fixes:
    ◼️occ_download_cached() bug fixed.

    Learn more: 🔗 buff.ly/3ZPuI4F

  6. Next time you want to cite #rgbif, you can now #CiteTheDOI:

    doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.

    (obviously, don’t forget to also cite the DATA using a download or derived dataset DOI 😁)
    fosstodon.org/@zeileis/1125970

  7. Whether downloading data or accessing it through the #GBIF API, #rgbif, #pybif or #cloudcomputing services, analysts and researchers who know the #ValueofGBIF 🌍 report saving an average of 64 hours per analysis in @D_AccessEcon's latest study: gbif.org/news/5WZThcL928vmPnSv

  8. CW: #DataUseClub practical session in >20 minutes

    There's still offer to register and join an intro/refresher for the GBIF API, #rgbif & #pygbif at the top of the hour!
    🪲🐞🪰🦟🐌🦌🦊🐒🦍🦁🦧🦋🐛🐝🦫🕷️🦂

    ¿🦄?

    us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist

  9. CW: rgbif

    New version of #rgbif (3.7.4) is now on #CRAN. In addition to bug fixes and minor improvements, this release adds the ability to name_usage() to fetch #IUCN Red List™️ categories.

    Full details in the changelog: docs.ropensci.org/rgbif/news/i

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    rgbif is part of @ropensci and is actively maintained by the GBIF Secretariat and other contributors (github.com/ropensci/rgbif/)