README.Rmd

taxize
======

```{r echo=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  warning = FALSE,
  message = FALSE,
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>"
)
```

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`taxize` allows users to search over many taxonomic data sources for species names (scientific and common) and download up and downstream taxonomic hierarchical information - among other things.

The taxize book: https://taxize.dev

Package documentation: https://docs.ropensci.org/taxize/


## Installation

### Stable version from CRAN

```{r eval=FALSE}
install.packages("taxize")
```

### Development version from GitHub

Windows users install Rtools first.

```{r eval=FALSE}
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("ropensci/taxize")
```

```{r}
library('taxize')
```

## Screencast

<a href="https://vimeo.com/92883063"><img src="man/figures/screencast.png" width="400"></a>

## Contributing

See our [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/ropensci/taxize/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) document.

## Road map

Check out our [milestones](https://github.com/ropensci/taxize/milestones) to see what we plan to get done for each version.

## Meta

* Please [report any issues or bugs](https://github.com/ropensci/taxize/issues).
* License: MIT
* Get citation information for `taxize` in R doing `citation(package = 'taxize')`
* Please note that this package is released with a [Contributor Code of Conduct](https://ropensci.org/code-of-conduct/). By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.

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