taxadb: A High-Performance Taxonomic Database Interface

Provides fast access to many commonly used taxonomic authorities in a uniform Darwin Core format. Tables are read directly from versioned Parquet snapshots, streamed from cloud storage or from a local copy, and queried with familiar 'dplyr' verbs.

Version: 0.3.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.0)
Imports: DBI, duckdb, tibble, dplyr, dbplyr, rlang, magrittr, stringi
Suggests: spelling, testthat, curl, knitr, rmarkdown, crayon, withr
Published: 2026-08-31
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.taxadb
Author: Carl Boettiger ORCID iD [aut, cre], Kari Norman ORCID iD [aut], Jorrit Poelen ORCID iD [aut], Scott Chamberlain ORCID iD [aut], Noam Ross ORCID iD [ctb], Mattia Ghilardi ORCID iD [ctb]
Maintainer: Carl Boettiger <cboettig at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/ropensci/taxadb/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: <https://docs.ropensci.org/taxadb/>, <https://github.com/ropensci/taxadb>
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Citation: taxadb citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: taxadb results

Documentation:

Reference manual: taxadb.html , taxadb.pdf
Vignettes: schema (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: taxadb_0.3.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: taxadb_0.3.0.zip, r-release: taxadb_0.3.0.zip, r-oldrel: taxadb_0.3.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): taxadb_0.3.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): taxadb_0.3.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): taxadb_0.3.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): taxadb_0.3.0.tgz
Old sources: taxadb archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports: bdc, R2camtrapdp
Reverse suggests: BeeBDC, EML, prepR4pcm

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