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wikitaxa

Taxonomic Information from 'Wikipedia'

v0.5.0 · Feb 13, 2026 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

'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.

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OK 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 1 FAILURE Jun 8, 2026
FAILURE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

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NOTE 12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 7, 2026
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

R code for possible problems

Fatal error: cannot create 'R_TempDir'
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

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Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies data.table curl crul tibble jsonlite xml2 WikipediR httr taxize wikitaxa

Version History

7 tracked
new 0.5.0 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.5.0 ← 0.4.0 diff Feb 12, 2026
updated 0.4.0 ← 0.3.0 diff Jun 28, 2020
updated 0.3.0 ← 0.2.0 diff Oct 18, 2018
updated 0.2.0 ← 0.1.4 diff Dec 20, 2017
updated 0.1.4 ← 0.1.0 diff May 5, 2017
new 0.1.0 Apr 2, 2017