Submission for GSoC 17, for the organisation RStats, under the project "Biodiversity-data-cleaning." All the files need to be run under RStudio Version 1.0.136 and R version 3.3.1
Easy: Install package rgbif and download sample data for few species. Use package mapr to plot the occurrence data on maps.
Easy: List existing R packages that have useful functions for biodiversity data cleaning
Medium: Write a R function to check dates of all the records downloaded from GBIF for a set of species. (Number of records > 10,000) and add a flag field indicating quality of the date field data.
Hard: Write a function to identify records very close to centroid of any country
Hard: Submit a pull request to package scrubr for any pending issues
mapr, rgbif, leaflet, ggplot