Taxonomic Information from 'Wikipedia'

'Taxonomic' information from 'Wikipedia', 'Wikicommons', 'Wikispecies', and 'Wikidata'. Functions included for getting taxonomic information from each of the sources just listed, as well performing taxonomic search.

wikitaxa

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
• Zachary S.L. Foster

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.