pbdb_opinions: Get information about multiple taxonomic opinions

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Get information about multiple taxonomic opinions

Description

Returns information about multiple taxonomic opinions, selected according to criteria other than taxon name. This function could be used to query for all of the opinions attributed to a particular author, or to show all of the recently entered opinions.

Usage

pbdb_opinions(...)

Arguments

...

Arguments passed to the API. See documentation for accepted parameters at https://paleobiodb.org/data1.2/opinions/list. E.g.: id: Selects the opinions corresponding to the specified identifier(s). You may provide more than one. op_author: Selects only opinions attributed to the specified author. Note that the opinion author(s) may be different from the author(s) of the reference from which the opinion was entered. This parameter accepts last names only, no first initials. You can specify more than one author name, in which case all opinions which match any of these will be selected. ops_created_before: Select only records associated with taxa that were created before the specified date or date/time. See https://paleobiodb.org/data1.2/datetime for documentation on how to specify date/time values. ops_created_after: Select only records associated with taxa that were created on or after the specified date or date/time. See https://paleobiodb.org/data1.2/datetime for documentation on how to specify date/time values. op_type: You can use this parameter to retrieve all opinions, or only the classification opinions, or only certain kinds of opinions. The default is all opinions. Accepted values include: "all" (the default), "class", "valid", "accepted", "junior", "invalid".

Value

A data frame with information about the taxonomic opinions that match the query.

Examples

## Not run: 
  pbdb_opinions(op_pubyr = 1818)

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