getTaxonomy: Compile amphibian taxonomy following the Amphibian Species of...

In defrostR: An Amphibian Systematics Tool

Description

This function takes no arguments. It cycles through the ASW website (http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/index.php/) to scrap all taxonomic information from Order to Species. As there are 5 taxonomic levels within each Order (Superfamily/Family/Subfamily/Genus/Species), one can expect the function to require 1 initial loop followed by 4 more, but it is designed to keep going until all lineages have reached the species level.

Usage

getTaxonomy()

Value

returns a dataframe listing all species and their taxonomic backbone as well as all URLs per species.

Examples

## Not run: asw_taxonomy_table<-getTaxonomy()

Example output

Loading required package: XML

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