fishtree: Interface to the Fish Tree of Life API

An interface to the Fish Tree of Life API to download taxonomies, phylogenies, fossil calibrations, and diversification rate information for ray-finned fishes.

Version: 0.4.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.0)
Imports: ape (≥ 5.2), jsonlite (≥ 1.5), lifecycle (≥ 1.0.0), memoise, parallel, rlang (≥ 0.4.1), utils
Suggests: diversitree, geiger, hisse (≥ 2.1.11), knitr, markdown, phytools, picante, rfishbase (≥ 4.1.2), rmarkdown, spelling, testthat (≥ 3.1.7), withr
Published: 2026-11-03
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.fishtree
Author: Jonathan Chang ORCID iD [aut, cre], Michael E Alfaro [ctb], Daniel L Rabosky [ctb], Stephen A Smith [ctb]
Maintainer: Jonathan Chang <me at jonathanchang.org>
BugReports: https://github.com/jonchang/fishtree/issues
License: BSD_2_clause + file LICENSE
URL: https://fishtreeoflife.org/, https://github.com/jonchang/fishtree
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Citation: fishtree citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: fishtree results

Documentation:

Reference manual: fishtree.html , fishtree.pdf
Vignettes: Phylogenetic community assembly with the Fish Tree of Life (source, R code)
A simple comparative analysis with the Fish Tree of Life (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: fishtree_0.4.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: fishtree_0.3.4.zip, r-release: fishtree_0.3.4.zip, r-oldrel: fishtree_0.3.4.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): fishtree_0.4.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): fishtree_0.4.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): fishtree_0.4.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): fishtree_0.4.0.tgz
Old sources: fishtree archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports: FishPhyloMaker
Reverse suggests: aptg, phylosem, prepR4pcm

Linking:

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