Author: Scott Chamberlain
taxize was seven years old this last Saturday!
What is taxize?
taxize is designed around making working with taxonomic names easier - abstracting away the details of what each of 20 or so taxonomic data sources require for a given use case.
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Read the full tech note here: https://ropensci.org/technotes/2018/05/23/taxize-seven-years/