taxize

taxize allows users to search over many taxonomic data sources for species names (scientific and common) and download up and downstream taxonomic hierarchical information - among other things.

The taxize book: https://taxize.dev

Package documentation: https://docs.ropensci.org/taxize/

Installation

Stable version from CRAN

install.packages("taxize")

Development version from GitHub

Windows users install Rtools first.

install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("ropensci/taxize")

library('taxize')

Screencast

Contributing

See our CONTRIBUTING document.

Road map

Check out our milestones to see what we plan to get done for each version.

Meta

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• License: MIT
• Get citation information for taxize in R doing citation(package = 'taxize')
• Please note that this package is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.