taxize (version 0.9.4)

vascan_search: Search the CANADENSYS Vascan API.

Description

Search the CANADENSYS Vascan API.

Usage

vascan_search(q, format = "json", raw = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

q

(character) Can be a scientific name, a vernacular name or a VASCAN taxon identifier (e.g. 861)

format

(character) One of json (default) or xml.

raw

(logical) If TRUE, raw json or xml returned, if FALSE, parsed data returned.

...

(list) Further args passed on to HttpClient

Value

json, xml or a list.

Details

Note that we lowercase all outputs in data.frame's, but when a list is given back, we don't touch the list names.

References

API docs http://data.canadensys.net/vascan/api

Examples

# NOT RUN {
vascan_search(q = "Helianthus annuus")
vascan_search(q = "Helianthus annuus", raw=TRUE)
vascan_search(q = c("Helianthus annuus", "Crataegus dodgei"), raw=TRUE)

# format type
## json
c <- vascan_search(q = "Helianthus annuus", format="json", raw=TRUE)
library("jsonlite")
fromJSON(c, FALSE)

## xml
d <- vascan_search(q = "Helianthus annuus", format="xml", raw=TRUE)
library("xml2")
xml2::read_xml(d)

# lots of names, in this case 50
splist <- names_list(rank='species', size=50)
vascan_search(q = splist)

# Curl options
invisible(vascan_search(q = "Helianthus annuus", verbose = TRUE))
# }