rOpenSci: The wikitaxa package

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

• Ethan Welty
• Scott Chamberlain

Meta

• 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.