reptiledbr: Interface to 'The Reptile Database' Taxon Data

Provides tools to search, access, and format taxonomic information from 'The Reptile Database' (<https://reptile-database.org>) directly within 'R'. Users can retrieve species-level data, distribution, etymology, synonyms, common names, and other relevant information for reptiles. Designed for taxonomists, ecologists, and biodiversity researchers.

Version: 0.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: xml2, stringr, purrr, tibble, tidyr, dplyr, utils, lifecycle, fuzzyjoin, cli
Suggests: covr, knitr, reptiledb.data, rlang, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-08-01
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.reptiledbr
Author: Paul Efren Santos Andrade ORCID iD [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer: Paul Efren Santos Andrade <paulefrens at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/PaulESantos/reptiledbr/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/PaulESantos/reptiledbr, https://paulesantos.github.io/reptiledbr/
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: reptiledbr results

Documentation:

Reference manual: reptiledbr.html , reptiledbr.pdf
Vignettes: Reptile Data Formatting Tutorial (source, R code)
Introduction to reptiledbr: Accessing The Reptile Database in R (source, R code)
Local Taxonomic Searches with reptiledbr (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: reptiledbr_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available
Old sources: reptiledbr archive

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