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rphylopic

Get Silhouettes of Organisms from PhyloPic

v1.6.0 · Nov 18, 2025 · GPL (>= 3)

Description

Work with the PhyloPic Web Service (<http://api-docs.phylopic.org/v2/>) to fetch silhouette images of organisms. Includes functions for adding silhouettes to both base R plots and ggplot2 plots.

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CRAN Check Status

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Check History

OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

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Code

Structure

Lines of code

7,106

Files

129

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 2,691 (37.9%)Tests 980 (13.8%)Docs 1,449 (20.4%)Vignettes 1,986 (27.9%)

API

Exported functions

18

Internal functions

32

Recent export changes

v1.6.0+1 add_phylopic_tree
v1.5.0+2 scale_height_continuous, scale_width_continuous

Testing & CI

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

1.58

testthat edition

3

CI present

No

CI type

[]

PR gated

No

Docs

Return-value doc rate

58.8%

\dontrun example ratio

92.3%

Roxygen coverage

100%

Has pkgdown

No

NEWS present

Yes

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

13.3%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

4.0

System requirements

C++ standard

License

GPL (>= 3)

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

12

First release

2018-11-19

Latest release

2025-11-18

Avg cadence

102 days

Cold removal rate

100%

Dep drift

12

LOC over versions

v0.2.0: 2,286 LOCv0.3.0: 2,367 LOCv1.0.0: 1,390 LOCv1.1.0: 3,090 LOCv1.1.1: 3,110 LOCv1.2.0: 4,067 LOCv1.2.1: 4,072 LOCv1.2.2: 4,338 LOCv1.3.0: 4,920 LOCv1.4.0: 5,251 LOCv1.5.0: 5,817 LOCv1.6.0: 7,106 LOC

Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/cran-code-metrics.

Reverse Dependencies (2)

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies ape ggplot2 jsonlite png grImport2 (>= 0.3.3) rsvg httr curl lifecycle pbapply knitr scales mpmaggregate rmacrostrat rphylopic

Version History

13 tracked
new 1.6.0 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.6.0 ← 1.5.0 diff Nov 17, 2025
updated 1.5.0 ← 1.4.0 diff Sep 3, 2024
updated 1.4.0 ← 1.3.0 diff Apr 22, 2024
updated 1.3.0 ← 1.2.2 diff Dec 20, 2023
updated 1.2.2 ← 1.2.1 diff Oct 27, 2023
updated 1.2.1 ← 1.2.0 diff Oct 10, 2023
updated 1.2.0 ← 1.1.1 diff Aug 28, 2023
updated 1.1.1 ← 1.1.0 diff Jul 7, 2023
updated 1.1.0 ← 1.0.0 diff Jun 29, 2023
updated 1.0.0 ← 0.3.0 diff Mar 19, 2023
updated 0.3.0 ← 0.2.0 diff Jun 3, 2020
new 0.2.0 Nov 18, 2018