taxify: Offline Taxonomic Name Matching Against Local Darwin Core Snapshots

Match taxonomic names against locally stored Darwin Core backbone databases ('WFO', 'COL', 'GBIF', 'ITIS', 'NCBI Taxonomy', 'Open Tree of Life', 'WoRMS', 'Euro+Med', 'Species Fungorum', 'AlgaeBase', 'FishBase', 'SeaLifeBase', 'Reptile Database'). Provides offline fuzzy and exact matching with synonym resolution, hybrid name detection, and a unified output schema across all sources. All heavy computation runs in the 'vectra' C11 columnar engine.

Version: 0.3.4
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: curl, jsonlite, rlang, vectra
Suggests: DBI, GIFT, knitr, openxlsx2, rmarkdown, RSQLite, sf, taxifydb, terra, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), TR8, withr
Published: 2026-07-09
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.taxify
Author: Gilles Colling ORCID iD [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer: Gilles Colling <gilles.colling051 at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/gcol33/taxify/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://gillescolling.com/taxify/, https://github.com/gcol33/taxify
NeedsCompilation: no
Additional_repositories: https://gcol33.r-universe.dev
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: taxify results

Documentation:

Reference manual: taxify.html , taxify.pdf
Vignettes: Choosing and combining backends (source, R code)
Joining custom data with add_data() (source, R code)
Enriching results with trait and status data (source, R code)
Fuzzy matching: methods, thresholds, and tuning (source, R code)
Hybrid name detection and parsing (source, R code)
Inspecting a name list with inspect() (source, R code)
Working with large species lists (source, R code)
Migrating from taxize, WorldFlora, and related tools (source, R code)
Getting started with taxify (source, R code)
Constraining matches to a geographic region (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: taxify_0.3.4.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: taxify_0.3.4.zip, r-release: taxify_0.3.4.zip, r-oldrel: taxify_0.3.4.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): taxify_0.3.4.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): taxify_0.3.4.tgz, r-release (x86_64): taxify_0.3.4.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): taxify_0.3.4.tgz
Old sources: taxify archive

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