taxize (version 0.2.0)

taxize-package: Taxnomic search and phylogeny retrieval.

Description

Taxnomic search and phylogeny retrieval.

Details

We are developing taxize as a package to allow users to search over many websites for species names (scientific and common) and download up- and downstream taxonomic hierarchical information - and many other things.

The functions in the package that hit a specific API have a prefix and suffix separated by an underscore. They follow the format of service_whatitdoes. For example, gnr_resolve uses the Global Names Resolver API to resolve species names. General functions in the package that don't hit a specific API don't have two words separated by an underscore, e.g., classification.

You need API keys for Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), the Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer (uBio), Tropicos, and Plantminer.

Currently supported APIs are:

ll{ API prefix Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) eol_ Integrated Taxonomic Information Service (ITIS) itis_ Phylomatic phylomatic_ uBio ubio_ Global Names Resolver (from EOL/GBIF) gnr_ Global Names Index (from EOL/GBIF) gni_ IUCN Red List iucn_ Tropicos (from Missouri Botanical Garden) tp_ Plantminer plantminer_ Theplantlist.org tpl_ Catalogue of Life col_ Global Invasive Species Database gisd_ }