A transcription of the original Bioinformatics scientific paper describing the GQ API, openly and freely available here: http://bit.ly/bioinformatics_btw057

The Geospatial Quality API (GQ API) is a REST API created to provide access to a set of basic geospatial assessment functions over sets of primary biodiversity records. This package, rgeospatialquality, is built as a wrapper for the GQ API. It provides native access to the methods of the API and allows to use its functions from within an R environment. In this document, I show how this package can be used together with ROpenSci’s rgbif to easily apply quality assessment functions to data downloaded through its methods.