taxadb: A High-Performance Taxonomic Database Interface
Provides fast access to many commonly used taxonomic authorities in a uniform Darwin Core format. Tables are read directly from versioned Parquet snapshots, streamed from cloud storage or from a local copy, and queried with familiar 'dplyr' verbs.
| Version: | 0.3.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.0) |
| Imports: | DBI, duckdb, tibble, dplyr, dbplyr, rlang, magrittr, stringi |
| Suggests: | spelling, testthat, curl, knitr, rmarkdown, crayon, withr |
| Published: | 2026-08-31 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.taxadb |
| Author: | Carl Boettiger 
[aut, cre],
Kari Norman [aut],
Jorrit Poelen
[aut],
Scott Chamberlain
[aut],
Noam Ross [ctb],
Mattia Ghilardi
[ctb] |
| Maintainer: | Carl Boettiger <cboettig at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/ropensci/taxadb/issues |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: | <https://docs.ropensci.org/taxadb/>, <https://github.com/ropensci/taxadb> |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Language: | en-US |
| Citation: | taxadb citation info |
| Materials: | README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | taxadb results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | taxadb.html , taxadb.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
schema (source, R code) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | taxadb_0.3.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: taxadb_0.3.0.zip, r-release: taxadb_0.3.0.zip, r-oldrel: taxadb_0.3.0.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): taxadb_0.3.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): taxadb_0.3.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): taxadb_0.3.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): taxadb_0.3.0.tgz |
| Old sources: | taxadb archive |
Reverse dependencies:
| Reverse imports: | bdc, R2camtrapdp |
| Reverse suggests: | BeeBDC, EML, prepR4pcm |
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