rphylopic

1.7.0

Get Silhouettes of Organisms from PhyloPic

2packages depend

11.3Kdownloads / year

93.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by William GeartyFirst published 2018-11-1913 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Work with the PhyloPic Web Service (http://api-docs.phylopic.org/v2/) to fetch silhouette images of organisms. Includes functions for adding silhouettes to both base R plots and ggplot2 plots.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("rphylopic", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("palaeoverse/rphylopic")

Development version from palaeoverse/rphylopic. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-rphylopic

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-rphylopic

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-rphylopic

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.79

93.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 279 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 7%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 61%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

11.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,373 · ~31/day · ~941/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ palaeoverse/rphylopic

97Stars

13Forks

8Open issues

1Open PRs

13Releases

381Commits

11Contributors

phylopicrstatssilhouetteggplot2base-r

License GPL-3.0 · 381 commits · Last activity 2026-07-22 · 0% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

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Checks run against github.com/palaeoverse/rphylopic on 2026-07-30.

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cran-comments.md

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

27 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0

Imports (16)

ape ggplot2 jsonlitegridgraphicspng grImport2 (>= 0.3.3)rsvg httr httpcache curlmethodslifecycle pbapply knitr scales

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (14)

testthat vdiffr rmarkdown covr phytools palaeoverse ggtree deeptime palmerpenguins maps sf igraph ggraph devtools

Enhances (0)

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Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

mpmaggregate rmacrostrat

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

William Gearty

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.0.0

Authors (2)

William Gearty

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.0.0

Lewis A. Jones

Author · added in 1.0.0

Contributors (3)

Scott Chamberlain

Contributor

David L. Miller

Contributor · added in 1.6.0

Martin R. Smith

Contributor · added in 1.6.0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

David Miller

no longer listed · 0.2.0 to 1.5.0

Package Timeline

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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-11-19
Total releases: 13 / 8 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Download size: 4.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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