R/finbif_taxa.R

In finbif: Interface for the 'Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility' API

#' Search the FinBIF taxa
#'
#' Search the FinBIF database for taxon.
#'
#' @aliases fb_taxa
#'
#' @param name Character. The name or ID of a taxon. Or, for functions other
#'    than `finbif_taxa` a `finbif_taxa` object.
#' @param n Integer. Maximum number of matches to return. For types "exact" and
#'   "likely" only one taxon will be returned.
#' @param type Character. Type of match to make. Must be one of `exact`,
#'   `partial` or `likely`.
#' @param cache Logical or Integer. If `TRUE` or a number greater than zero,
#'   then data-caching will be used. If not logical then cache will be
#'   invalidated after the number of hours indicated by the argument.
#' @param locale Character. One of the supported two-letter ISO 639-1 language
#'   codes. Current supported languages are English, Finnish and Swedish. For
#'   data where more than one language is available the language denoted by
#'   `locale` will be preferred while falling back to the other languages in the
#'   order indicated above.
#' @return For `finbif_taxa` a `finbif_taxa` object. Otherwise, a character
#'    vector.
#' @examples \dontrun{
#'
#' # Search for a taxon
#' finbif_taxa("Ursus arctos")
#'
#' # Use partial matching
#' finbif_taxa("Ursus", n = 10, "partial")
#'
#' # Get Sámi (Northern) name of Eurasian Eagle-owl
#' common_name("Bubo bubo", "se")
#'
#' # Get scientific name of "Otter"
#' scientific_name("Otter")
#'
#' # Get taxon identifier of "Otter"
#' taxon_id("Otter")
#'
#' }
#' @export

finbif_taxa <- function(
  name,
  n = 1,
  type = c("exact", "partial", "likely"),
  cache = getOption("finbif_use_cache")
) {

  query <- list(query = name, matchType = match.arg(type), limit = n)

  req <- list(path = "taxa/search", query = query, cache = cache)

  res <- api_get(req)

  structure(res, class = c("finbif_taxa", "finbif_api"))

}

#' @noRd

taxon_attribute <- function(obj) {

  taxon <- finbif_taxa(obj[["taxon"]], n = 1, type = "exact")

  taxon <- taxon[["content"]]

  taxon <- taxon[[1L]]

  attribute <- obj[["attribute"]]

  with_locale(taxon[[attribute]], obj[["locale"]])

}

#' @export
#' @rdname finbif_taxa

common_name <- function(
  name,
  locale = getOption("finbif_locale")
) {

  obj <- list(taxon = name, attribute = "vernacularName", locale = locale)

  taxon_attribute(obj)

}

#' @export
#' @rdname finbif_taxa

scientific_name <- function(
  name
) {

  obj <- list(taxon = name, attribute = "scientificName")

  taxon_attribute(obj)

}

#' @export
#' @rdname finbif_taxa

taxon_id <- function(
  name
) {

  obj <- list(taxon = name, attribute = "id")

  taxon_attribute(obj)

}