worrms
======



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`worrms` is a R client for the World Register of Marine Species

* World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) http://www.marinespecies.org/
* WoRMS REST API docs: http://www.marinespecies.org/rest/

See the taxize book (https://taxize.dev) for taxonomically focused work
in this and similar packages.

## Installation

More stable CRAN version


```r
install.packages("worrms")
```

Development version


```r
remotes::install_github("ropensci/worrms")
```


```r
library("worrms")
```

## Meta

* Please [report any issues or bugs](https://github.com/ropensci/worrms/issues).
* License: MIT
* Get citation information for `worrms` in R doing `citation(package = 'worrms')`
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