perumammals: Taxonomic Backbone and Name Validation Tools for Mammals of Peru

Provides a curated taxonomic backbone of mammal species from Peru based on Pacheco et al. (2021) "Lista actualizada de la diversidad de los mamíferos del Perú y una propuesta para su actualización" <doi:10.15381/rpb.v28i4.21019>. The package includes standardized species data, occurrence by ecoregions, endemism status, and tools for validating and matching scientific names through exact and fuzzy procedures. It is designed as a lightweight and dependable reference for ecological, environmental, biogeographic, and conservation workflows that require reliable species information for Peruvian mammals.

Version: 0.0.0.1
Depends: R (≥ 4.1)
Imports: assertthat, cli, dplyr, fuzzyjoin, progress, purrr, readr, stringr, tibble, memoise
Suggests: ggplot2, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), tidyr, ggtext
Published: 2026-01-06
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.perumammals (may not be active yet)
Author: Paul E. Santos Andrade ORCID iD [aut, cre], Fiorella N. Gonzales Guillen ORCID iD [ctb]
Maintainer: Paul E. Santos Andrade <paulefrens at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/PaulESantos/perumammals/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/PaulESantos/perumammals, https://paulesantos.github.io/perumammals/
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: perumammals citation info
Materials: README
CRAN checks: perumammals results

Documentation:

Reference manual: perumammals.html , perumammals.pdf
Vignettes: perumammals Package Logo (source, R code)
Getting Started with perumammals (source, R code)
Exploring Mammal Diversity in Peru with perumammals (source, R code)

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Package source: perumammals_0.0.0.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: perumammals_0.0.0.1.zip, r-release: perumammals_0.0.0.1.zip, r-oldrel: perumammals_0.0.0.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): perumammals_0.0.0.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): perumammals_0.0.0.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): perumammals_0.0.0.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): perumammals_0.0.0.1.tgz

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