rfishbase

I was given a task to use the data in Fishbase to find percentages of different fish in different habitats. Carl Boettiger created an R package (rfishbase) to make the data very accessible in R, but unfortunately, some of the functions in the version on CRAN didn't work for me. Instead, I used the code he has on github. So if anyone else is having trouble getting updateCache() to work or wants to modify the code to extract a piece of information that isn't being extracted in the original fishbase() function, this is the place to go! Another nice thing is that you can also use getData() to download smaller chunks of data if you don't want to overwhelm the server.