TIBHannover/BacDiveR: Maintenance release

This R package provides a programmatic interface to the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase of the DSMZ (German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures). BacDiveR helps you improve your research on bacteria and archaea by providing access to "structured information on [...] their taxonomy, morphology, physiology, cultivation, geographic origin, application, interaction" and more (Söhngen et al. 2016). Specifically, you can:

• download the BacDive data you need for offline investigation, and

• document your searches and downloads in .R scripts, .Rmd files, etc.

Thus, BacDiveR can be the basis for a reproducible data analysis pipeline. See TIBHannover.GitHub.io/BacDiveR for more details, /news there for the changelog, and GitHub.com/TIBHannover/BacDiveR for the latest source code.

It was also built to serve as a demonstration object during TIB's "FAIR Data & Software" workshop.

BacDiveR 0.9.1

Fixed

• Expose a previously silent download error (#110; Thanks to @jfy133!)

Changed

• Repair outdated links in documentation
• Improve some code sections in minor ways