# R Interface to FishBASE

## Documentation for package ‘rfishbase’ version 0.2-2

- DESCRIPTION file.
- Overview of user guides and package vignettes; browse directory.
- Package NEWS.

## Help Pages

familySearch | A function to find all fish that are members of a scientific Family
findSpecies | Returns the matching indices in the data given a list of species names
fish.data | A cached copy of extracted FishBase data, 14 Febuary 2013.
fish_names | Return the scientific names, families, classes, or orders of the input data
getDepth | Returns available depth range data
getEnviroClimateRange | get the Environment, Climate, and Range of a species.
getIds | get fishbase id numbers
getLengthWeight | get the length weight table
getMetabolism | get metabolism table (oxygen consumption).
getPictures | getPictures from the fishbase database
getQuantTraits | Returns all quantitative trait values found in the morphology data
getRefs | Returns the FishBase reference id numbers matching a query.
getSize | Returns available size data of specified type (length, weight, or age)
getTrophicLevel | get trophic level
habitatSearch | A function to search for the occurances of any keyword in habitat description
labridtree | An example phylogeny of labrid fish
loadCache | Load an updated cache
updateCache | Update the cached copy of fishbase data
which_fish | which_fish is the the generic search function for fishbase a variety of description types