Package: wikitaxa 0.4.0.93

Zachary Foster

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.

Authors:Scott Chamberlain [aut], Ethan Welty [aut], Grzegorz Sapijaszko [aut], Zachary Foster [aut, cre]

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NEWS

# Install 'wikitaxa' in R:

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

Bug tracker:https://github.com/ropensci/wikitaxa/issues

Pkgdown site:https://docs.ropensci.org

Datasets:

wikipedias - List of Wikipedias

On CRAN:

taxonomy species api web-services wikipedia vernacular wikispecies wikicommons taxize wikipedia-api

8.33 score 21 stars 22 packages 11 scripts 4.7k downloads 15 exports 97 dependencies

Last updated from:5bf2efcb08 (on master). Checks:10 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Total time
linux-devel-x86_64	OK	131
pkgdown docs	OK	163
source / vignettes	OK	201
linux-release-x86_64	OK	129
macos-release-arm64	OK	74
macos-oldrel-arm64	OK	105
windows-devel	OK	68
windows-release	OK	77
windows-oldrel	OK	78
wasm-release	OK	126

Exports:wt_data wt_data_id wt_wiki_page wt_wiki_page_parse wt_wiki_url_build wt_wiki_url_parse wt_wikicommons wt_wikicommons_parse wt_wikicommons_search wt_wikipedia wt_wikipedia_parse wt_wikipedia_search wt_wikispecies wt_wikispecies_parse wt_wikispecies_search

Dependencies:askpass assertthat backports base64enc bit bit64 bslib cachem checkmate cli clipr cluster colorspace cpp11 crayon crul curl data.table digest dplyr evaluate farver fastmap fontawesome foreign Formula fs generics ggplot2 glue gridExtra gtable highr Hmisc hms htmlTable htmltools htmlwidgets httpcode httr isoband jquerylib jsonlite knitr labeling lattice lazyeval lifecycle magrittr MASS Matrix memoise mgcv mime nlme nnet openssl pbapply pillar pkgconfig prettyunits progress purrr R6 rappdirs ratelimitr RColorBrewer Rcpp readr rex rlang rmarkdown rpart rstudioapi sass scales stringi stringr sys tibble tidyselect tinytex triebeard tzdb urltools utf8 vctrs viridis viridisLite vroom WikidataQueryServiceR WikidataR WikipediR withr xfun xml2 yaml

Introduction to the wikitaxa package

Scott Chamberlain

Rendered fromwikitaxa.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdownon Aug 23 2025.

Last update: 2020-06-28
Started: 2020-06-28

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Development and contributors

Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help page	Topics
wikitaxa	wikitaxa-package wikitaxa
List of Wikipedias	wikipedias
Wikidata taxonomy data	wt_data wt_data_id
Get MediaWiki Page from API	wt_wiki_page
Parse MediaWiki Page	wt_wiki_page_parse
Build MediaWiki Page URL	wt_wiki_url_build
Parse MediaWiki Page URL	wt_wiki_url_parse
WikiCommons	wt_wikicommons wt_wikicommons_parse wt_wikicommons_search
Wikipedia	wt_wikipedia wt_wikipedia_parse wt_wikipedia_search
WikiSpecies	wt_wikispecies wt_wikispecies_parse wt_wikispecies_search