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.

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')

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Contributing

See our
CONTRIBUTING
document.

Contributors

Collected via GitHub Issues: honors all contributors in alphabetical
order. Code contributors are in bold.

afkoeppel - ahhurlbert - albnd - Alectoria - andzandz11 - anirvan -
antagomir - arendsee - ArielGreiner - arw36 - ashenkin -
ashiklom - benjaminschwetz - benmarwick - bienflorencia -
binkySallly - bomeara - BridgettCollis - bw4sz - cboettig -
cdeterman - ChrKoenig - chuckrp - clarson2191 - claudenozeres -
cmzambranat - cparsania - daattali - DanielGMead - DarrenObbard -
davharris - davidvilanova - diogoprov - dlebauer - dlenz1 -
dougwyu - dschlaep - EDiLD - edwbaker - emhart - eregenyi -
fdschneider - fgabriel1891 - fischhoff - fmichonneau - fozy81 -
gedankenstuecke - gimoya - git-og - glaroc - gpli - gustavobio -
hlapp - ibartomeus - Ironholds - jabard89 - jangorecki -
jarioksa - jebyrnes - jeroen - jimmyodonnell - joelnitta -
johnbaums - jonmcalder - jordancasey - josephwb - jsgosnell -
JulietteLgls - jwilk - kamapu - karthik - katrinleinweber -
KevCaz - kgturner - kmeverson - Koalha - ljvillanueva - maelle -
Markus2015 - matutosi - mcsiple - MikkoVihtakari - millerjef -
miriamgrace - mpnelsen - MUSEZOOLVERT - nate-d-olson - nmatzke - npch -
ocstringham - p-neves - p-schaefer - padpadpadpad - paternogbc -
patperu - pederengelstad - philippi - Phylloxera - pmarchand1 -
pozsgaig - pssguy - raredd - rec3141 - Rekyt - RodgerG -
rossmounce - sariya - sastoudt - scelmendorf - sckott -
SimonGoring - snsheth - snubian - Squiercg - sunray1 - taddallas -
tdjames1 - tmkurobe - toczydlowski - tpaulson1 - tpoisot -
TrashBirdEcology - trvinh - vijaybarve - wcornwell -
willpearse - wpetry - yhg926 - zachary-foster

Road map

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