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Interface to the 'Open Tree of Life' API

v3.1.1 · Jan 15, 2026 · BSD_2_clause + file LICENSE

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An interface to the 'Open Tree of Life' API to retrieve phylogenetic trees, information about studies used to assemble the synthetic tree, and utilities to match taxonomic names to 'Open Tree identifiers'. The 'Open Tree of Life' aims at assembling a comprehensive phylogenetic tree for all named species.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies ape curl httr jsonlite rentrez rlang rncl (>= 0.6.0) taxize MiscMetabar prepR4pcm rotl

Version History

17 tracked
new 3.1.1 Mar 10, 2026
updated 3.1.1 ← 3.1.0 diff Jan 14, 2026
updated 3.1.0 ← 3.0.14 diff Jun 14, 2023
updated 3.0.14 ← 3.0.12 diff Oct 5, 2022
updated 3.0.12 ← 3.0.11 diff Dec 7, 2021
updated 3.0.11 ← 3.0.10 diff Oct 21, 2020
updated 3.0.10 ← 3.0.9 diff Sep 27, 2019
updated 3.0.9 ← 3.0.7 diff Jun 13, 2019
updated 3.0.7 ← 3.0.6 diff Feb 14, 2019
updated 3.0.6 ← 3.0.5 diff Jan 19, 2019
updated 3.0.5 ← 3.0.4 diff Sep 28, 2018
updated 3.0.4 ← 3.0.3 diff Apr 2, 2018
updated 3.0.3 ← 3.0.1 diff Mar 3, 2017
updated 3.0.1 ← 3.0.0 diff Sep 19, 2016
updated 3.0.0 ← 0.5.0 diff Apr 25, 2016