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

Datasets:

wikipedias - List of Wikipedias

On CRAN:

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

8.60 score 21 stars 23 packages 12 scripts 15k downloads 15 exports 92 dependencies

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

Target	Result	Total time
linux-devel-x86_64	OK	140
pkgdown docs	OK	164
source / vignettes	OK	212
linux-release-x86_64	OK	132
macos-release-arm64	OK	79
macos-oldrel-arm64	OK	123
windows-devel	OK	89
windows-release	OK	72
windows-oldrel	OK	92
wasm-release	OK	124

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 lazyeval lifecycle magrittr memoise mime nnet openssl pbapply pillar pkgconfig prettyunits progress purrr R6 rappdirs ratelimitr RColorBrewer Rcpp readr rex rlang rmarkdown rpart rstudioapi S7 sass scales stringi stringr sys tibble tidyselect tinytex triebeard tzdb urltools utf8 vctrs viridisLite vroom WikidataQueryServiceR WikidataR WikipediR withr xfun xml2 yaml

Introduction to the wikitaxa package

Scott Chamberlain

Rendered fromwikitaxa.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdownon Oct 22 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