paleobioDB (version 0.7.0)

pbdb_taxon: pbdb_taxon

Description

Returns information about a single taxonomic name, identified either by name or by identifier.

Usage

pbdb_taxon (...)

Arguments

...

arguments passed to the API. See documentation for accepted parameters in http://paleobiodb.org/data1.1/taxa/single. Eg:

• name: returns information about the most fundamental taxonomic name matching this string. The % and _ characters may be used as wildcards.

• ...

Value

a dataframe with information from a single taxon

Examples

# NOT RUN {
pbdb_taxon (name="Canis", vocab="pbdb", 
show=c("attr", "app", "size"))

# }