Package: taxodist
Title: Taxonomic Distance and Phylogenetic Lineage Computation
Version: 0.3.0
Authors@R: person("Rodrigo Fonseca", "Villa", email = "rodrigo03.villa@gmail.com",
           role = c("aut", "cre"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0009-0005-2938-2270"))
Maintainer: Rodrigo Fonseca Villa <rodrigo03.villa@gmail.com>
Description: Computes phylogenetic distances between any two taxa using 
    hierarchical lineage data retrieved from The Taxonomicon 
    <http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl>, a comprehensive curated classification 
    of all life based on Systema Naturae 2000 (Brands, 1989 
    <http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl>). Given any two taxon names, retrieves their 
    full lineages, identifies the most recent common ancestor (MRCA), 
    and computes a dissimilarity index based on lineage depth. Outputs 
    native dist objects, enabling direct integration with the R statistical 
    ecosystem for hierarchical clustering, principal coordinate analysis (PCoA), 
    and multivariate ecological analyses. Supports individual distance queries, 
    pairwise distance matrices, clade filtering, and lineage utilities.
Language: en-US
License: GPL (>= 3)
URL: https://github.com/rodrigosqrt3/taxodist
BugReports: https://github.com/rodrigosqrt3/taxodist/issues
Encoding: UTF-8
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
SystemRequirements: internet access
Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)
Imports: httr (>= 1.4.0), rvest (>= 1.0.0), stringr (>= 1.4.0), purrr
        (>= 0.3.0), cli (>= 3.0.0), utils, stats, graphics
Suggests: testthat (>= 3.0.0), mockery, knitr, rmarkdown, xml2, ape,
        vegan
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Config/testthat/edition: 3
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-05-05 16:58:02 UTC; rodri
Author: Rodrigo Fonseca Villa [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2938-2270>)
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-05-05 22:30:02 UTC
