wikitaxa

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wikitaxa - taxonomy data from Wikipedia/Wikidata/Wikispecies

Low level API

The low level API is meant for power users and gives you more control, but requires more knowledge.

High level API

The high level API is meant to be easier and faster to use.

Search functions:

Installation

CRAN version

install.packages("wikitaxa")

Dev version

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("ropensci/wikitaxa")
library('wikitaxa')

wiki data

wt_data("Poa annua")

Get a Wikidata ID

wt_data_id("Mimulus foliatus")
#> [1] "Q6495130"
#> attr(,"class")
#> [1] "wiki_id"

wikipedia

lower level

pg <- wt_wiki_page("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malus_domestica")
res <- wt_wiki_page_parse(pg)
res$iwlinks
#> [1] "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apple"                                  
#> [2] "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/Apple"               
#> [3] "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Apples"                                  
#> [4] "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Apple"
#> [5] "https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Apples"                                  
#> [6] "https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Malus_domestica"                    
#> [7] "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Apple_cultivars"

higher level

res <- wt_wikipedia("Malus domestica")
res$common_names
#> # A tibble: 1 x 2
#>    name language
#>   <chr>    <chr>
#> 1 Apple       en
res$classification
#> # A tibble: 3 x 2
#>         rank         name
#>        <chr>        <chr>
#> 1 plainlinks             
#> 2    species    M. pumila
#> 3   binomial Malus pumila

choose a wikipedia language

# French
wt_wikipedia(name = "Malus domestica", wiki = "fr")
# Slovak
wt_wikipedia(name = "Malus domestica", wiki = "sk")
# Vietnamese
wt_wikipedia(name = "Malus domestica", wiki = "vi")

wikicommons

lower level

pg <- wt_wiki_page("https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abelmoschus")
res <- wt_wikicommons_parse(pg)
res$common_names[1:3]
#> [[1]]
#> [[1]]$name
#> [1] "okra"
#> 
#> [[1]]$language
#> [1] "en"
#> 
#> 
#> [[2]]
#> [[2]]$name
#> [1] "مسكي"
#> 
#> [[2]]$language
#> [1] "ar"
#> 
#> 
#> [[3]]
#> [[3]]$name
#> [1] "Abelmoş"
#> 
#> [[3]]$language
#> [1] "az"

higher level

res <- wt_wikicommons("Abelmoschus")
res$classification
#> # A tibble: 15 x 2
#>          rank           name
#>         <chr>          <chr>
#>  1     Domain      Eukaryota
#>  2   unranked Archaeplastida
#>  3     Regnum        Plantae
#>  4     Cladus    angiosperms
#>  5     Cladus       eudicots
#>  6     Cladus  core eudicots
#>  7     Cladus    superrosids
#>  8     Cladus         rosids
#>  9     Cladus    eurosids II
#> 10       Ordo       Malvales
#> 11    Familia      Malvaceae
#> 12 Subfamilia     Malvoideae
#> 13     Tribus      Hibisceae
#> 14      Genus    Abelmoschus
#> 15  Authority  Medik. (1787)
res$common_names
#> # A tibble: 19 x 2
#>                name language
#>               <chr>    <chr>
#>  1             okra       en
#>  2             مسكي       ar
#>  3          Abelmoş       az
#>  4        Ibiškovec       cs
#>  5     Bisameibisch       de
#>  6            Okrat       fi
#>  7        Abelmosco       gl
#>  8        Abelmošus       hr
#>  9           Ybiškė       lt
#> 10   "അബെ\u0d7dമോസ്കസ്"       ml
#> 11         Абельмош      mrj
#> 12 Abelmoskusslekta       nn
#> 13          Piżmian       pl
#> 14         Абельмош       ru
#> 15             موري       sd
#> 16      Okrasläktet       sv
#> 17         Абельмош      udm
#> 18    Chi Vông vang       vi
#> 19           黄葵属       zh

wikispecies

lower level

pg <- wt_wiki_page("https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Malus_domestica")
res <- wt_wikispecies_parse(pg, types = "common_names")
res$common_names[1:3]
#> [[1]]
#> [[1]]$name
#> [1] "Ябълка"
#> 
#> [[1]]$language
#> [1] "български"
#> 
#> 
#> [[2]]
#> [[2]]$name
#> [1] "Poma, pomera"
#> 
#> [[2]]$language
#> [1] "català"
#> 
#> 
#> [[3]]
#> [[3]]$name
#> [1] "Apfel"
#> 
#> [[3]]$language
#> [1] "Deutsch"

higher level

res <- wt_wikispecies("Malus domestica")
res$classification
#> # A tibble: 8 x 2
#>          rank          name
#>         <chr>         <chr>
#> 1 Superregnum     Eukaryota
#> 2      Regnum       Plantae
#> 3      Cladus   Angiosperms
#> 4      Cladus      Eudicots
#> 5      Cladus Core eudicots
#> 6      Cladus        Rosids
#> 7      Cladus    Eurosids I
#> 8        Ordo       Rosales
res$common_names
#> # A tibble: 19 x 2
#>               name   language
#>              <chr>      <chr>
#>  1          Ябълка  български
#>  2    Poma, pomera     català
#>  3           Apfel    Deutsch
#>  4     Aed-õunapuu      eesti
#>  5           Μηλιά   Ελληνικά
#>  6           Apple    English
#>  7         Manzano    español
#>  8           Pomme   français
#>  9           Melâr     furlan
#> 10        사과나무     한국어
#> 11          ‘Āpala    Hawaiʻi
#> 12            Melo   italiano
#> 13           Aapel Nordfriisk
#> 14  Maçã, Macieira  português
#> 15 Яблоня домашняя    русский
#> 16   Tarhaomenapuu      suomi
#> 17            Elma     Türkçe
#> 18  Яблуня домашня українська
#> 19          Pomaro     vèneto

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