GatherProviderDataFrame: Gather EOL Provider Information

In Reol: R interface to the Encyclopedia of Life

Description

This function will read in the downloaded xml files and amass a data frame with provider information. Information will include taxon name, eol number, and information from each provider in the following order: provider taxon, provider taxon ID, provider scientific name, provider taxonomy rank.

Usage

GatherProviderDataFrame(MyEOLs, extended.output=FALSE)

Arguments

MyEOLs	A vector of filenames or a list of XMLs for downloaded EOL pages
extended.output	If set to TRUE, then a large dataframe will be returned with information from each provider in the following order: provider taxon, provider taxon ID, provider scientific name, provider taxonomy rank.

Value

Returns a data frame with presence/absence of provider information or if extended.output=TRUE ID values for each provider.

Examples

data(MyEOLs)
## Not run: GatherProviderDataFrame(MyEOLs, extended.output=FALSE)

GatherProviderDataFrame(MyEOLs[1], extended.output=FALSE)

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