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ecotourism

The goal of ecotourism is to provide clean, ready-to-use datasets for example analyses in teaching, demos, and reproducible workflows.
It currently includes wildlife (e.g., cuttlefish) occurrence records, tourism counts by region, and local weather for matching locations.

Website

👉 Documentation site: https://vahdatjavad.github.io/ecotourism/

Installation

Install the development version from GitHub:

# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("vahdatjavad/ecotourism")

If you prefer remotes:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("vahdatjavad/ecotourism")

What’s inside?

List all available datasets and their short titles:

Object Title
glowworms Glowworms Occurrence Data (2014–2024)
gouldian_finch Gouldian Finch Occurrence Data (2014–2024)
manta_rays Manta Ray Occurrence Data (2014–2024)
orchids Orchid Occurrence Data (2014–2024)
top_stations Top Weather Stations for Each Organism
weather_data Daily Weather Data for Top Stations (2014–2024)
weather_stations Australian Weather Station Metadata
tourism_quarterly Australian tourism spots quarterly counts
tourism_region Australian tourism regions with lat and lon.

This is the relational dataset in this package:

ecotourism dataset schema

To see documentation for any dataset, use:

?ecotourism::DATASET_NAME

Example

This is a minimal usage sketch. Replace DATASET_NAME with one from the table above.

library(ecotourism)

# List datasets included in the package
utils::data(package = "ecotourism")

# Example workflow (replace DATASET_NAME with a real object from the list)
# data("DATASET_NAME", package = "ecotourism")
# head(DATASET_NAME)
# str(DATASET_NAME)

# Tip: quick summaries if dplyr is available:
# if (requireNamespace("dplyr", quietly = TRUE)) {
#   dplyr::glimpse(DATASET_NAME)
# }

Getting help

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome! If you’re unsure where to start, open an issue first to discuss changes.

Citation

If you use ecotourism in teaching, demos, or research, please cite it:

citation("ecotourism")