taxalight: A Lightweight and Lightning-Fast Taxonomic Naming Interface

Creates a local Lightning Memory-Mapped Database ('LMDB') of many commonly used taxonomic authorities and provides functions that can quickly query this data. Supported taxonomic authorities include the Integrated Taxonomic Information System ('ITIS'), National Center for Biotechnology Information ('NCBI'), Global Biodiversity Information Facility ('GBIF'), Catalogue of Life ('COL'), and Open Tree Taxonomy ('OTT'). Name and identifier resolution using 'LMDB' can be hundreds of times faster than either relational databases or internet-based queries. Precise data provenance information for data derived from naming providers is also included.

Version:	0.1.5
Depends:	R (≥ 4.0)
Imports:	thor, contentid
Suggests:	jsonlite, spelling, testthat, covr, knitr, rmarkdown, progress, utf8, crayon
Published:	2021-09-14
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.taxalight
Author:	Carl Boettiger [aut, cre], Kari Norman [aut]
Maintainer:	Carl Boettiger <cboettig at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/cboettig/taxalight
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://github.com/cboettig/taxalight
NeedsCompilation:	no
Language:	en-US
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	taxalight results

Documentation:

Reference manual:

taxalight.html , taxalight.pdf

Downloads:

Package source:	taxalight_0.1.5.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: taxalight_0.1.5.zip, r-release: taxalight_0.1.5.zip, r-oldrel: taxalight_0.1.5.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): taxalight_0.1.5.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): taxalight_0.1.5.tgz, r-release (x86_64): taxalight_0.1.5.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): taxalight_0.1.5.tgz
Old sources:	taxalight archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse suggests:

RNeXML

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