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Specifies a term-wise search (like searchbyterm
) and requests
that all available records be made available for download as a
tab-delimited text file.
bigsearch(..., rfile, email, messages = TRUE, callopts = list())
arguments, must be named, see searchbyterm()
for details
A name for the results file that you will download (character). Required.
An email address where you can be contacted when your records are ready for download (character). Required.
(logical) Print progress and information messages.
Default: TRUE
(named list) Curl arguments passed on to crul::verb-GET
Prints messages on progress, but returns NULL
We suggest reading data in with data.table::fread()
- as it's very
fast for the sometimes large datasets
you will get from using this function, and is usually robust to
formatting issues.
bigsearch
allows you to request records as a
tab-delimited text file. This is the best way to access a large number of
records, such as when your search results indicate that >1000 records are
available. You will be notified by email when your records are ready
for download.
https://github.com/VertNet/webapp/wiki/The-API-search-function
# NOT RUN {
# replace "big@search.luv" with your own email address
bigsearch(genus = "ochotona", rfile = "pikaRecords", email = "big@search.luv")
# Pass in curl options for curl debugging
bigsearch(genus = "ochotona", rfile = "pikaRecords",
email = "big@search.luv", verbose = TRUE)
# Use more than one year query
bigsearch(class = "aves", year = c(">=1976", "<=1986"),
rfile = "test-bigsearch1", email = "big@search.luv")
# }
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