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taxizedb (version 0.3.2)

Offline Access to Taxonomic Databases

Description

Download taxonomic databases, convert them into 'SQLite' format, and query them locally for fast, reliable, and reproducible access to taxonomic data.

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install.packages('taxizedb')

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Version

0.3.2

License

MIT + file LICENSE

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Maintainer

Tam<c3><a1>s Stirling

Last Published

June 18th, 2025

Functions in taxizedb (0.3.2)

src_taxizedb

src - dplyr src objects
db_download

Download taxonomic databases
db_load-defunct

Load taxonomic databases
classification

Retrieve the taxonomic hierarchies from local database
sql_collect

Query and get data back into a data.frame
name2taxid

Convert species names to taxon IDs
taxa_at

Get taxa at specific scientific ranks
children

Retrieve immediate descendents of a taxon
db_path

database path
downstream

Retrieve all taxa descending from a vector of taxa
tdb_cache

Caching
taxizedb-package

taxizedb
taxid2rank

Convert taxon IDs to scientific ranks
taxid2name

Convert taxon IDs to scientific names