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wikitaxa

Project Status: Active – The project has reached a stable, usable state and is being actively developed. cran checks R-check codecov rstudio mirror downloads cran version

wikitaxa - taxonomy data from Wikipedia/Wikidata/Wikispecies

wikitaxa docs: https://docs.ropensci.org/wikitaxa/

See also the taxize book: https://books.ropensci.org/taxize/

Low level API

The low level API is meant for power users and gives you more control, but requires more knowledge.

  • wt_wiki_page()
  • wt_wiki_page_parse()
  • wt_wiki_url_build()
  • wt_wiki_url_parse()
  • wt_wikispecies_parse()
  • wt_wikicommons_parse()
  • wt_wikipedia_parse()

High level API

The high level API is meant to be easier and faster to use.

  • wt_data()
  • wt_data_id()
  • wt_wikispecies()
  • wt_wikicommons()
  • wt_wikipedia()

Search functions:

  • wt_wikicommons_search()
  • wt_wikispecies_search()
  • wt_wikipedia_search()

Installation

CRAN version

install.packages("wikitaxa")

Dev version

remotes::install_github("ropensci/wikitaxa")
library('wikitaxa')

Contributors

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  • Please report any issues or bugs.
  • License: MIT
  • Get citation information for wikitaxa in R doing citation(package = 'wikitaxa')
  • Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

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