rOpenSci: The ritis package

An interface to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

• ITIS API Docs: https://www.itis.gov/ws_description.html
• Solr service: https://www.itis.gov/solr_documentation.html
• taxize book: https://taxize.dev/
• ritis docs: https://docs.ropensci.org/ritis/

How to cite ITIS. From https://itis.gov/citation.html

To cite data obtained from ITIS, the following citation format is offered as a suggestion:

Retrieved [month, day, year], from the Integrated Taxonomic Information System on-line database, http://www.itis.gov.

ITIS is one of many different taxonomic data sources. Other include: Catalogue of Life (and COL+), NCBI taxonomy, International Plant Names Index, Index Fungorum, and more. The Wikipedia entry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Taxonomic_Information_System) states that ITIS has a North American focus, but includes many taxa not in North America.

Terminology

• “mononomial”: a taxonomic name with one part, e.g, Poa
• “binomial”: a taxonomic name with two parts, e.g, Poa annua
• “trinomial”: a taxonomic name with three parts, e.g, Poa annua annua

Installation

Stable, CRAN version

install.packages("ritis")

Dev version

remotes::install_github("ropensci/ritis")

library("ritis")

Meta

• Please report any issues or bugs.
• License: MIT
• Get citation information for ritis in R doing citation(package = 'ritis')
• 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.