[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#877517: ITP: r-cran-wikitaxa -- taxonomic information from 'Wikipedia' for GNU R

[Andreas Tille]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>

* Package name    : r-cran-wikitaxa
  Version         : 0.1.4
  Upstream Author : Scott Chamberlain <myrmecocystus+r at gmail.com>
* URL             : https://cran.r-project.org/package=wikitaxa
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: GNU R
  Description     : taxonomic information from 'Wikipedia' for GNU R
 This package provides 'Taxonomic' information from 'Wikipedia',
 'Wikicommons', 'Wikispecies', and 'Wikidata' for GNU R. There are
 functions included for getting taxonomic information from each of the
 sources just listed, as well performing taxonomic search.


Remark: This package is the third (and last) element in the chain of new
dependencies to upgrade r-cran-taxize.  It will be maintained by the
Debian-Med team at
   https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-med/r-cran-wikitaxa.git