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submission: taxadb #344

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Submitting Author: Kari Norman (@karinorman)
Repository: https://github.com/cboettig/taxadb
Version submitted: v1.0.0
Editor: @ldecicco-USGS (Guest Editor)
Reviewer 1: @mcsiple
Reviewer 2: @lindsayplatt
Archive: TBD
Version accepted: TBD


  • Paste the full DESCRIPTION file inside a code block below:
Package: taxadb
Version: 0.0.1
Title: A High-Performance Local Taxonomic Database Interface
Description: Creates a local database of many commonly used taxonomic authorities
             and provides functions that can quickly query this data.  
Authors@R: c(
            person("Carl", "Boettiger", , "cboettig@gmail.com", c("aut", "cre"),
                   comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-1642-628X")),
            person("Kari", "Norman", role= "aut",
                   comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-2029-2325")),       
            person("Jorrit", "Poelen", role ="aut", 
                   comment = c(ORCID="0000-0003-3138-4118")),
            person("Scott", "Chamberlain", role ="aut", 
                   comment = c(ORCID="0000-0003-1444-9135")),
            person("Noam", "Ross", , "ross@ecohealthalliance.org", role ="ctb",
                   comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-2136-0000"))
            )
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
ByteCompile: true
Depends: R (>= 2.10)
Imports:
    dplyr,
    DBI,
    arkdb,
    tibble,
    memoise,
    readr,
    rappdirs,
    rlang,
    magrittr,
    stringi,
    progress,
    utils,
    dbplyr
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
RoxygenNote: 6.1.1
Suggests:
    spelling,
    testthat,
    covr,
    knitr,
    rmarkdown,
    purrr,
    RSQLite,
    MonetDBLite
Language: en-US
VignetteBuilder: knitr
URL: https://github.com/cboettig/taxadb
BugReports: https://github.com/cboettig/taxadb/issues
Remotes: MonetDB/MonetDBLite-R, cwida/duckdb/tools/rpkg


Scope

  • Please indicate which category or categories from our package fit policies this package falls under: (Please check an appropriate box below. If you are unsure, we suggest you make a pre-submission inquiry.):

    • data retrieval
    • data extraction
    • database access
    • data munging
    • data deposition
    • reproducibility
    • geospatial data
    • text analysis
  • Explain how and why the package falls under these categories (briefly, 1-2 sentences):

The package accesses existing data sets, adapts them to a standard format, and provides a set of functions for accessing the resulting database.

  • Who is the target audience and what are scientific applications of this package?

Anyone using data including species names, especially for datasets that may have taxonomic inconsistencies.

taxaize provides accesses to many of the same datasets via an API interface. Our package is specifically designed to work around the API to offer the faster access necessary for large datasets, as well as provide a standardized format for all datasets.

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