wikitaxa: Taxonomic Information from 'Wikipedia'

'Taxonomic' information from 'Wikipedia', 'Wikicommons', 'Wikispecies', and 'Wikidata'. Functions included for getting taxonomic information from each of the sources just listed, as well performing taxonomic search.

Version:	0.5.0
Depends:	R (≥ 3.2.1)
Imports:	data.table, curl, crul (≥ 0.3.4), tibble, jsonlite, xml2, WikipediR, httr
Suggests:	testthat, knitr, rmarkdown, vcr
Published:	2026-02-13
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.wikitaxa
Author:	Scott Chamberlain [aut], Ethan Welty [aut], Grzegorz Sapijaszko [aut], Zachary Foster [aut, cre]
Maintainer:	Zachary Foster <zacharyfoster1989 at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/ropensci/wikitaxa/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://docs.ropensci.org/wikitaxa/, https://github.com/ropensci/wikitaxa
NeedsCompilation:	no
Language:	en-US
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	wikitaxa results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	wikitaxa.html , wikitaxa.pdf
Vignettes:	Introduction to the wikitaxa package (source)

Downloads:

Package source:	wikitaxa_0.5.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: wikitaxa_0.5.0.zip, r-release: wikitaxa_0.5.0.zip, r-oldrel: wikitaxa_0.5.0.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): wikitaxa_0.5.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): wikitaxa_0.5.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): wikitaxa_0.5.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): wikitaxa_0.5.0.tgz
Old sources:	wikitaxa archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports:

taxize

Linking:

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