ritalic is an R package which gives you access to ITALIC mediated data via its REST API.

ITALIC the Information System on Italian Lichens, makes available information and resources about the lichens known to occur in Italy. It is maintained and updated by the Research Unit of Professor Pier Luigi Nimis, at the University of Trieste (NE Italy), Department of Life Sciences. Most of the data are derived from the Checklist of the Lichens of Italy by Nimis (2016), but nomenclatural and distributional data are being continuously updated.

You can either install the stable relase of ritalic using the version available on CRAN:

# coming soon

Or you can install the development version of the package from GitHub:

# install devtools package
install.packages("devtools")
# load devtools
library(devtools)
# install ritalic
devtools::install_github("Mattciao96/ritalic")
# load ritalic
library(ritalic)

# Now you can use the functions available in ritalic

The package includes a vignette designed to help users. This vignette serves as a basic guide for utilizing the main functions of the package. To access it, simply enter the following command in the R console (after loading the package):

vignette("ritalic")

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