findCode: Find a Key
In icesVocab: ICES Vocabularies Database Web Services

Description Usage Arguments Details Value See Also Examples

View source: R/findCode.R

Look up a key for a given code and code type.

1	findCode(code_type, code, regex = TRUE, full = FALSE)

`code_type`	a search string for a code type, e.g. SpecWorms, or simply worms.
`code`	a search string for a code, e.g. a species name, cod, or ship name, Clupea.
`regex`	whether to match as a regular expression.
`full`	whether to return a data frame.

Matches are case-insensitive.

A vector of keys (default) or a data frame if full is TRUE.

getCodeList can be used to get all code types; see example on that help page.

icesVocab-package gives an overview of the package.

findCode("aphia", "cod")

# Multiple matches
findCode("aphia", c("cod", "haddock", "saithe"), full = TRUE)

findCodeType("ship", full = TRUE)
findCode("ship", "clupea", full = TRUE)