expowo: An R Package for Mining Global Plant Diversity and Distribution Data

Produces diversity estimates and species lists with associated global distribution for any vascular plant family and genus from Plants of the World Online database, by interacting with the source code of each plant taxon page. It also creates global maps of species richness, graphics of species discoveries and name changes over time. For more details: 'Zuanny, D.C., B.Vilela, P.W.Moonlight, T.E.Särkinen, and D.Cardoso. 2024. expowo: An R package for mining global plant diversity and distribution data. Applications in Plant Sciences 12: e11609'.

Version: 3.1
Depends: R (≥ 3.5.0)
Imports: RColorBrewer, dplyr, magrittr, data.table, ggplot2, rnaturalearth, sp, sf, utils, R.utils, flora, tibble, cowplot, plyr, PupillometryR, scales, viridisLite
Suggests: covr, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-07-24
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.expowo
Author: Debora Zuanny ORCID iD [aut, cre, cph], Domingos Cardoso ORCID iD [aut, ths, cph]
Maintainer: Debora Zuanny <deborazuanny at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/DBOSlab/expowo/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://dboslab.github.io/expowo/, https://github.com/dboslab/expowo
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: expowo citation info
Materials: README
CRAN checks: expowo results

Documentation:

Reference manual: expowo.html , expowo.pdf
Vignettes: Associated data (source, R code)
Mapping global distribution for any taxonomic level (source, R code)
Mining genus list for any vascular plant family (source, R code)
Mining species number of any plant family (source, R code)
Mining species list for any plant family (source, R code)
Mining distribution for any plant species (source, R code)
Mining the top richest genera of vascular plants (source, R code)
Plotting species discovery (source, R code)
Plotting nomenclatural changes (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: expowo_3.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: expowo_3.0.zip, r-release: expowo_3.0.zip, r-oldrel: expowo_3.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): expowo_3.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): expowo_3.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): expowo_3.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): expowo_3.1.tgz
Old sources: expowo archive

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