R Observatory: Metrics for rphylotastic version 0.0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2018-07-03. Its history is shown below.

Reason: check problems were not corrected despite reminders

Details below reflect version 0.0.4, its last release before removal.

rphylotastic

0.0.4Package record

Interface to 'Phylotastic' Web Services

0packages depend

–downloads / year

–test coverage

–flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Brian O'MearaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

This wraps the 'Phylotastic' services APIs https://github.com/phylotastic/phylo_services_docs/tree/master/ServiceDescription. The main use case is to return a phylogenetic tree for a set of species, but the services also include ways to extract species names from web pages, perform taxonomic name resolution, retrieve a list of all descendant species of a taxon, find images of a species, and more.

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/rphylotastic/rphylotastic_0.0.4.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "rphylotastic_0.0.4.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (0.0.4) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("phylotastic/rphylotastic")

Development version from phylotastic/rphylotastic. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.0.4

READMEYes · 44 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 22
Examples that run: 69%9 run in a plain check · 4 never run
Exported functions with examples: 65%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

rphylotastic Releases R versions

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (7)

httr jsonlite apeutilsphylobasemethodsrentrez (>= 1.0.4)

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

–indirect (not tracked)

Nothing depends on this yet.

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Brian O'Meara

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.4 (2018)

Abu Saleh Md Tayeen

Author

Releases (1)

R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2018-07-03
check problems were not corrected despite reminders
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.0.4
record
2018-02-27
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2018-02-27
Total releases: 1 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rphylotastic")

Format

O'Meara, B., & Md Tayeen, A. S. (n.d.). rphylotastic: Interface to 'Phylotastic' Web Services (Version 0.0.4) [Computer software]. Retrieved October 27, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rphylotastic

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rphylotastic version 0.0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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