Learn R Programming

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

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.

Copy Link

Version

Install

install.packages('wikitaxa')

Monthly Downloads

7,736

Version

0.4.0

License

MIT + file LICENSE

Issues

Pull Requests

Stars

Forks

Maintainer

Scott Chamberlain

Last Published

June 29th, 2020

Functions in wikitaxa (0.4.0)

wt_wiki_page

Get MediaWiki Page from API
wt_data

Wikidata taxonomy data
wt_wiki_page_parse

Parse MediaWiki Page
wt_wikicommons

WikiCommons
wt_wiki_url_parse

Parse MediaWiki Page URL
wt_wikispecies

WikiSpecies
wikitaxa-package

wikitaxa
wt_wikipedia

Wikipedia
wt_wiki_url_build

Build MediaWiki Page URL
wikipedias

List of Wikipedias