rgbif (version 0.4.0)

providers: Get data providers and their unique keys.

Description

This function is deprecated.

Usage

providers(name = "", isocountrycode = NULL,
    modifiedsince = NULL, startindex = NULL,
    maxresults = NULL)

Arguments

name

data provider name search string, by default searches all data providers by defining name = ''

isocountrycode

return only providers from the country identified by the supplied 2-letter ISO code.

modifiedsince

return only records which have been indexed or modified on or after the supplied date (format YYYY-MM-DD, e.g. 2006-11-28)

startindex

return the subset of the matching records that starts at the supplied (zero-based index).

maxresults

max number of results to return

Details

Beware: It takes a while to retrieve the full list of providers - so go get more coffee.

See Also

networks organizations datasets

Examples

# Test the function for a few providers
providers(maxresults=10)

# By data provider name
providers('University of Texas-Austin')