Package: taxodist Title: Taxonomic Distance and Phylogenetic Lineage Computation Version: 0.5.0 LazyData: true 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 Description: Computes phylogenetic distances between any two taxa using hierarchical lineage data retrieved from The Taxonomicon , a comprehensive curated classification of all life based on Systema Naturae 2000 (Brands, 1989 ). 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 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE) 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, webmockr VignetteBuilder: knitr Config/testthat/edition: 3 Config/pak/sysreqs: libicu-dev libxml2-dev libssl-dev Repository: https://rodrigosqrt3.r-universe.dev Date/Publication: 2026-06-09 20:01:56 UTC RemoteUrl: https://github.com/rodrigosqrt3/taxodist RemoteRef: HEAD RemoteSha: dce8bd0ef6522ef9877d73d30b3caf2459db2129 NeedsCompilation: no Packaged: 2026-06-09 22:09:39 UTC; root Author: Rodrigo Fonseca Villa [aut, cre] (ORCID: )