#An rOpenSci library for the Open Tree of Life API.
rOpenSci is a project that allows programatic access to data
repostories in the popular R programming language. rOpenSci already provides
libraries to query the phylogeny databases treeBASE
and Phylomatic
, as well
as data resources provided by NCBI and dryad . A library wrapping the Open Tree of Life
would be an excellent addition to the rOpenSci project and hopefully increase
the availability of the Open Tree of Life data.
I imagine the first step in creating such a library would be to faithfully map