Package: ritis 1.0.0

Julia Blum

ritis: Integrated Taxonomic Information System Client

An interface to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System ('ITIS') (<https://www.itis.gov>). Includes functions to work with the 'ITIS' REST API methods (<https://www.itis.gov/ws_description.html>), as well as the 'Solr' web service (<https://www.itis.gov/solr_documentation.html>).

Authors:Julia Blum [aut, cre], Scott Chamberlain [aut], rOpenSci [fnd]

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NEWS

# Install 'ritis' in R:
install.packages('ritis', repos = c('https://ropensci.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/ropensci/ritis/issues5 issues

Pkgdown site:https://docs.ropensci.org

Datasets:
  • solr_fields - List of fields that can be used in solr functions

On CRAN:ritis-1.0.0(2021-02-02)

Conda:r-ritis-1.0.0(2025-03-25)

taxonomybiologynomenclaturejsonapiwebapi-clientidentifiersspeciesnamesapi-wrapperitistaxize

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Exports:accepted_namesany_match_countcomment_detailcommon_namescore_metadatacoveragecredibility_ratingcredibility_ratingscurrencydate_datadescriptionexpertsfull_recordgeographic_divisionsgeographic_valuesglobal_species_completenesshierarchy_downhierarchy_fullhierarchy_upitis_facetitis_groupitis_highlightitis_searchjurisdiction_origin_valuesjurisdiction_valuesjurisdictional_originkingdom_namekingdom_nameslast_change_datelsid2tsnother_sourcesparent_tsnpublicationsrank_namerank_namesrecordreview_yearscientific_namesearch_any_match_pagedsearch_anymatchsearch_commonsearch_scientificsynonym_namestaxon_authorshiptermstsn_by_vernacular_languagetsn2lsidunacceptability_reasonusagevernacular_languages

Dependencies:clicrulcurldata.tabledplyrfansigenericsgluehttpcodejsonlitelifecyclemagrittrmimepillarpkgconfigplyrR6Rcpprlangsolriumtibbletidyselecttriebeardurltoolsutf8vctrswithrxml2

Citation

To cite package ‘ritis’ in publications use:

Blum J, Chamberlain S (2025). ritis: Integrated Taxonomic Information System Client. R package version 1.0.0, https://github.com/ropensci/ritis.

Corresponding BibTeX entry:

  @Manual{,
    title = {ritis: Integrated Taxonomic Information System Client},
    author = {Julia Blum and Scott Chamberlain},
    year = {2025},
    note = {R package version 1.0.0},
    url = {https://github.com/ropensci/ritis},
  }

Readme and manuals

ritis

An interface to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

How to cite ITIS. From https://itis.gov/citation.html

To cite data obtained from ITIS, the following citation format is offered as a suggestion:

Retrieved [month, day, year], from the Integrated Taxonomic Information System on-line database, http://www.itis.gov.

ITIS is one of many different taxonomic data sources. Other include: Catalogue of Life (and COL+), NCBI taxonomy, International Plant Names Index, Index Fungorum, and more. The Wikipedia entry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Taxonomic_Information_System) states that ITIS has a North American focus, but includes many taxa not in North America.

Terminology

  • "mononomial": a taxonomic name with one part, e.g, Poa
  • "binomial": a taxonomic name with two parts, e.g, Poa annua
  • "trinomial": a taxonomic name with three parts, e.g, Poa annua annua

Installation

Stable, CRAN version

install.packages("ritis")

Dev version

# remotes::install_github("ropensci/ritis")
install.packages("ritis", repos = c('https://ropensci.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))
library("ritis")

Meta

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  • License: MIT
  • Get citation information for ritis in R doing citation(package = 'ritis')
  • Please note that this package is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.

Help Manual

Help pageTopics
ritisritis-package ritis
Get accepted names from tsnaccepted_names
Get any match count.any_match_count
Get comment detail from TSNcomment_detail
Get common names from tsncommon_names
Get core metadata from tsncore_metadata
Get coverge from tsncoverage
Get credibility rating from tsncredibility credibility_rating credibility_ratings
Get currency from tsncurrency
Get date data from tsndate_data
Get description of the ITIS servicedescription
Get expert information for the TSN.experts
Get full record from TSN or lsidfull_record
Get geographic divisions from tsngeographic_divisions
Get all possible geographic valuesgeographic_values
Get global species completeness from tsnglobal_species_completeness
Get hierarchy down from tsnhierarchy hierarchy_down hierarchy_full hierarchy_up
ITIS Solr facetitis_facet
ITIS Solr group searchitis_group
ITIS Solr highlightitis_highlight
ITIS Solr searchitis_search
Get jurisdictional origin from tsnjurisdiction jurisdictional_origin jurisdiction_origin_values jurisdiction_values
Get kingdom names from tsnkingdoms kingdom_name kingdom_names
Provides the date the ITIS database was last updatedlast_change_date
Gets the TSN corresponding to the LSID, or an empty result if there is no match.lsid2tsn
Returns a list of the other sources used for the TSN.other_sources
Returns the parent TSN for the entered TSN.parent_tsn
Returns a list of the pulications used for the TSN.publications
Returns the kingdom and rank information for the TSN.rank_name
Provides a list of all the unique rank names contained in the database and their kingdom and rank ID values.rank_names
Gets a record from an LSIDrecord
Returns the review year for the TSN.review_year
Returns the scientific name for the TSN. Also returns the component parts (names and indicators) of the scientific name.scientific_name
Search for any matched pagesearch_any_match_paged
Search for any matchsearch_anymatch
Search for tsn by common namesearch_common
Search by scientific namesearch_scientific
ITIS Solr Methodssolr
List of fields that can be used in solr functionssolr_fields
Returns a list of the synonyms (if any) for the TSN.synonym_names
Returns the author information for the TSN.taxon_authorship
Get ITIS terms, i.e., tsn's, authors, common names, and scientific namesterms
Get tsn by vernacular languagetsn_by_vernacular_language
Gets the unique LSID for the TSN, or an empty result if there is no match.tsn2lsid
Returns the unacceptability reason, if any, for the TSN.unacceptability_reason
Returns the usage information for the TSN.usage
Provides a list of the unique languages used in the vernacular table.vernacular_languages