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type: software
license: GPL-3.0-or-later
title: 'SoilTaxonomy: A System of Soil Classification for Making and Interpreting
  Soil Surveys'
version: 0.2.8
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.SoilTaxonomy
abstract: 'Taxonomic dictionaries, formative element lists, and functions related
  to the maintenance, development and application of U.S. Soil Taxonomy. Data and
  functionality are based on official U.S. Department of Agriculture sources including
  the latest edition of the Keys to Soil Taxonomy. Descriptions and metadata are obtained
  from the National Soil Information System or Soil Survey Geographic databases. Other
  sources are referenced in the data documentation. Provides tools for understanding
  and interacting with concepts in the U.S. Soil Taxonomic System. Most of the current
  utilities are for working with taxonomic concepts at the "higher" taxonomic levels:
  Order, Suborder, Great Group, and Subgroup.'
authors:
- family-names: Brown
  given-names: Andrew
  email: andrew.g.brown@usda.gov
- family-names: Beaudette
  given-names: Dylan
  email: dylan.beaudette@usda.gov
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'SoilTaxonomy: A System of Soil Classification for Making and Interpreting
    Soil Surveys'
  authors:
  - family-names: Brown
    given-names: Andrew
    email: andrew.g.brown@usda.gov
  - family-names: Beaudette
    given-names: Dylan
    email: dylan.beaudette@usda.gov
  notes: R package version 0.2.8
  url: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=SoilTaxonomy
  year: '2025'
repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/ncss-tech/SoilTaxonomy
commit: 962ec7c955b49ee11e30285fc69b831e8bd9450a
url: https://ncss-tech.github.io/SoilTaxonomy/
date-released: '2025-07-11'
contact:
- family-names: Brown
  given-names: Andrew
  email: andrew.g.brown@usda.gov