helminthR: an R interface to the London Natural History Museum's Host–Parasite Database

摘要: The understanding of the diversity and distribution helminth parasites is currently constrained by limited number host–parasite interaction databases, difficulty in accessing existing data. London Natural History Museum's Host–Parasite Database represents one such underutilized database, containing over a quarter million parasite occurrence records, accessible through web interface. To enable users to programmatically search manipulate data from this I developed an R package called helminthR. Here, introduce core functions package, detail how helminthR can be used obtain citations for interactions, host taxonomic