rtreeoflife: Access Tree of Life Data Releases

Search species and specimen records from the Royal Botanic Gardens Tree of Life Explorer and retrieve selected genomic sequence files. Provides a bundled species index, tools for matching scientific names, and selective download helpers for sequence files. Supports tidy data workflows with list-columns, summaries, exploratory visualisation with 'ggplot2', and illustrative tree construction from shared genes.

Version: 0.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: cli, dplyr, ggplot2, tibble, tools, utils
Suggests: ape, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-08-04
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.rtreeoflife (may not be active yet)
Author: Paul E. Santos Andrade ORCID iD [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer: Paul E. Santos Andrade <paulefrens at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/PaulESantos/rtreeoflife/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/PaulESantos/rtreeoflife, https://treeoflife.kew.org/, https://sftp.kew.org/pub/treeoflife/current_release/
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: rtreeoflife citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: rtreeoflife results

Documentation:

Reference manual: rtreeoflife.html , rtreeoflife.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: rtreeoflife_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

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