taxize (version 0.9.4)

col_search: Search Catalogue of Life for taxonomic IDs

Description

Search Catalogue of Life for taxonomic IDs

Usage

col_search(name = NULL, id = NULL, start = NULL, checklist = NULL,
  response = "terse", ...)

Arguments

name

The string to search for. Only exact matches found the name given will be returned, unless one or wildcards are included in the search string. An * (asterisk) character denotes a wildcard; a character may also be used. The name must be at least 3 characters long, not counting wildcard characters.

id

The record ID of the specific record to return (only for scientific names of species or infraspecific taxa)

start

The first record to return. If omitted, the results are returned from the first record (start=0). This is useful if the total number of results is larger than the maximum number of results returned by a single Web service query (currently the maximum number of results returned by a single query is 500 for terse queries and 50 for full queries).

checklist

The year of the checklist to query, if you want a specific year's checklist instead of the lastest as default (numeric).

response

(character) one of "terse" or "full"

...

Curl options passed on to HttpClient

Value

A list of data.frame's.

Details

You must provide one of name or id. The other parameters (format and start) are optional.

References

http://webservice.catalogueoflife.org/

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# A basic example
col_search(name="Apis")
col_search(name="Agapostemon")
col_search(name="Poa")

# Get full response, i.e., more data
col_search(name="Apis", response="full")
col_search(name="Poa", response="full")

# Many names
col_search(name=c("Apis","Puma concolor"))
col_search(name=c("Apis","Puma concolor"), response = "full")

# An example where there is no data
col_search(id = "36c623ad9e3da39c2e978fa3576ad415")
col_search(id = "36c623ad9e3da39c2e978fa3576ad415", response = "full")
col_search(id = "787ce23969f5188c2467126d9a545be1")
col_search(id = "787ce23969f5188c2467126d9a545be1", response = "full")
col_search(id = c("36c623ad9e3da39c2e978fa3576ad415", 
  "787ce23969f5188c2467126d9a545be1"))
## a synonym
col_search(id = "f726bdaa5924cabf8581f99889de51fc")
col_search(id = "f726bdaa5924cabf8581f99889de51fc", response = "full")
# }