R Observatory: Metrics for taxize version 0.10.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

taxize

0.10.1

Taxonomic Information from Around the Web

14packages depend

113.6Kdownloads / year

52.2%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Zachary FosterFirst published 2012-12-0452 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Interacts with a suite of web application programming interfaces (API) for taxonomic tasks, such as getting database specific taxonomic identifiers, verifying species names, getting taxonomic hierarchies, fetching downstream and upstream taxonomic names, getting taxonomic synonyms, converting scientific to common names and vice versa, and more. Some of the services supported include 'NCBI E-utilities' (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25501/), 'Encyclopedia of Life' (https://eol.org/docs/what-is-eol/data-services), 'Global Biodiversity Information Facility' (https://techdocs.gbif.org/en/openapi/), and many more. Links to the API documentation for other supported services are available in the documentation for their respective functions in this package.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("taxize", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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

Development version from ropensci/taxize. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-taxize

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-taxize

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-taxize

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 3.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 9.65

52.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

24

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-06-08
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 412 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 6%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 61%
References docs: 17%

Downloads

113.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,412 · ~311/day · ~9.5K/mo

Releases R versions

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6.1K30 days

20.3K90 days

113.6K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ropensci/taxize

303Stars

65Forks

52Open issues

0Open PRs

43Releases

2,386Commits

47Contributors

taxonomydataapibiodiversitybiologyrstatsnomenclaturedarwincore

2,386 commits · Last activity 2026-05-12 · +1% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-04 · 2842026-07-29 · 303

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/taxize on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.1

Imports (24)

graphicsmethodsstatsutilscrul xml2 (>= 1.2.0)jsonlite ape zoo data.table tibble rredlist rotl ritis worrms natserv wikitaxa R6 crayon cli phangorn lifecycle curl stringi

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat vegan vcr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

14direct

0indirect

aptg datamuseum metacoder refdb traits LocaTT MonoPhy camtrapR ecocomDP gtools myTAI occCite spocc taxizedb

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (17)

Maintainer (1)

Zachary Foster

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.5.2

Authors (4)

Zachary Foster

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.5.2

Zebulun Arendsee

Author · added in 0.9.2

Scott Chamberlain

Author

Eduard Szoecs

Author

Contributors (12)

Ignasi Bartomeus

Contributor · added in 0.0.3

John Baumgartner

Contributor · added in 0.1.0

Carl Boettiger

Contributor

Matthias Grenié

Contributor · added in 0.9.7

Gaopeng Li

Contributor · added in 0.9.4

Philippe Marchand

Contributor · added in 0.9.3

James O'Donnell

Contributor · added in 0.7.4

Jari Oksanen

Contributor · added in 0.8.4

Show 4 more contributors

Karthik Ram

Contributor · added in 0.1.5

Maëlle Salmon

Contributor · added in 0.9.4

Vinh Tran

Contributor · added in 0.9.3

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

Contributor · added in 0.9.3

Funders (1)

rOpenSci

Funder · added in 0.9.4

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Package metadata

First published: 2012-12-04
Total releases: 52 / 14 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.1
Bundled data: 191 KB / 9 files
Download size: 2.5 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Foster, Z., rOpenSci, Arendsee, Z., Bartomeus, I., Baumgartner, J., Boettiger, C., Chamberlain, S., Grenié, M., Li, G., Marchand, P., O'Donnell, J., Oksanen, J., Ram, K., Salmon, M., Szoecs, E., Tran, V., & Tzovaras, B. G. (2026). taxize: Taxonomic Information from Around the Web (Version 0.10.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.taxize

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