Package: taxadb 0.2.1.99

Carl Boettiger

taxadb: A High-Performance Local Taxonomic Database Interface

Creates a local database of many commonly used taxonomic authorities and provides functions that can quickly query this data.

Authors:Carl Boettiger [aut, cre], Kari Norman [aut], Jorrit Poelen [aut], Scott Chamberlain [aut], Noam Ross [ctb], Mattia Ghilardi [ctb]

# Install 'taxadb' in R:

install.packages('taxadb', repos = c('https://packages.ropensci.org', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

On CRAN:

Last updated 1 years agofrom:6c2023d7e1 (on master). Checks:10 OK. Indexed: yes.

Carl Boettiger, Kari Norman

Last update: 2021-04-28
Started: 2020-01-24

Carl Boettiger, Kari Norman

Last update: 2022-09-12
Started: 2020-01-24

Help page	Topics
Clean taxonomic names	clean_names
common name starts with	common_contains
common name starts with	common_starts_with
Creates a data frame with column name given by 'by', and values given by the vector 'x', and then uses this table to do a filtering join, joining on the 'by' column to return all rows matching the 'x' values (scientificNames, taxonIDs, etc).	filter_by
Look up taxonomic information by common name	filter_common
Return a taxonomic table matching the requested ids	filter_id
Look up taxonomic information by scientific name	filter_name
Get all members (descendants) of a given rank level	filter_rank
Match names that start or contain a specified text string	fuzzy_filter
get_ids	get_ids
get_names	get_names
return all taxa in which scientific name contains the text provided	name_contains
scientific name starts with	name_starts_with
Return a reference to a given table in the taxadb database	taxa_tbl
Show the taxadb directory	taxadb_dir
Connect to the taxadb database	td_connect
create a local taxonomic database	td_create
Disconnect from the taxadb database.	td_disconnect
Import taxonomic database tables	tl_import