taxize

Allows users to search over many taxonomic data sources for species names (scientific and common) and download up and downstream taxonomic hierarchical information.
https://github.com/ropensci/taxize

Category: Biosphere
Sub Category: Biodiversity Data Access and Management

Keywords

api api-wrapper biodiversity biology darwincore data nomenclature r r-package rstats taxize taxonomy

Keywords from Contributors

ecology genomics species carpentries stable routing data-carpentry gbif lesson spocc

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A taxonomic toolbelt for R

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ropensci/taxize
• Owner: ropensci
• License: other
• Created: 2011-05-19T15:05:33.000Z (almost 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-03-04T17:56:24.000Z (2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-05-15T23:01:55.990Z (2 days ago)
• Topics: api, api-wrapper, biodiversity, biology, darwincore, data, nomenclature, r, r-package, rstats, taxize, taxonomy
• Language: R
• Homepage: https://docs.ropensci.org/taxize
• Size: 36.6 MB
• Stars: 277
• Watchers: 32
• Forks: 62
• Open Issues: 51
• Releases: 42
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.Rmd
  • Changelog: NEWS.md
  • Contributing: .github/CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE
  • Codemeta: codemeta.json

README.Rmd

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taxize
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```{r echo=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  warning = FALSE,
  message = FALSE,
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>"
)
```

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`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

```{r eval=FALSE}
install.packages("taxize")
```

### Development version from GitHub

Windows users install Rtools first.

```{r eval=FALSE}
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("ropensci/taxize")
```

```{r}
library('taxize')
```

## Screencast



## Contributing

See our [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/ropensci/taxize/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) 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](https://github.com/ropensci/taxize/milestones) to see what we plan to get done for each version.

## Meta

* Please [report any issues or bugs](https://github.com/ropensci/taxize/issues).
* 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](https://ropensci.org/code-of-conduct/). By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.

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• Login: ropensci
• Email: [email protected]
• Kind: organization
• Description:
• Website: https://ropensci.org/
• Location: Berkeley, CA
• Twitter: rOpenSci
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• Repositories: 307
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• Issues event: 22
• Watch event: 7
• Issue comment event: 57
• Push event: 44
• Pull request event: 3
• Fork event: 3

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• Create event: 1
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Last synced: 8 days ago

Name	Email	Commits
Scott Chamberlain	m****s@g****m	1710
EDiLD	s****2@u****e	192
Zachary S.L. Foster	z****9@g****m	86
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Bastian Greshake	b****e@g****m	12
Gaopeng Li	9****9@q****m	11
Maëlle Salmon	m****n@y****e	9
Zebulun Arendsee	a****e@i****u	7
Philippe Marchand	p****d@r****g	7
Carl Boettiger	c****g@g****m	6
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Karthik Ram	k****m@g****m	4
Tim	t****m@p****n	3
Brian M. Schilder	3****r	3
Jimmy O'Donnell	j****o@g****m	3
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fozy81	f****1@g****m	2
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Salix	3****d	1
Robert Redd	r****1@g****m	1
Katrin Leinweber	k****r@t****u	1
Luis J. Villanueva	l****a@c****m	1
Maëlle Salmon	m****e@i****m	1
Timothée Poisot	t****t@u****a	1
ironholds	i****s@g****m	1
taddallas	t****s@u****u	1
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Committer domains:

• pop-os.localdomain: 2
• uni-landau.de: 1
• ens-lyon.fr: 1
• qq.com: 1
• iastate.edu: 1
• rstudio01.research.sesync.org: 1
• oulu.fi: 1
• github.com: 1
• tib.eu: 1
• coquipr.com: 1
• itsalocke.com: 1
• uqar.ca: 1
• ucdavis.edu: 1
• covimo.de: 1
• posteo.de: 1
• jwilk.net: 1
• chatterjee.net: 1
• bu.edu: 1
• rediffmail.com: 1

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Package metadata

• Total packages: 2
• Total downloads: unknown
• Total dependent packages: 3 (may contain duplicates)
• Total dependent repositories: 1 (may contain duplicates)
• Total versions: 64

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