rcatfish_journals: Search for journals in the Catalog of Fishes

In rcatfish: An R Interface to the California Academy of Sciences Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes

Search for journals in the Catalog of Fishes

Description

Search for journals in the Catalog of Fishes

Usage

rcatfish_journals(query, phrase = FALSE, sleep.time = 10, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

query	Character vector to search for.
phrase	Logical. Should query be passed as a quoted phrase (e.g. "Journal of Zoology"). Default is FALSE.
sleep.time	Numeric. Time in seconds to sleep between query calls to the California Academy of Sciences page. This is set by default to 10 seconds, which is in their robots.txt. Adjust at your own risk.
verbose	Logical. Should query progress be messaged to the screen? Default is TRUE.

Details

This function returns information on the journals cited in the Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes.

Value

Two column data frame. The first column contains the name of the query and the second column contains information on the journal.

Author(s)

Samuel R. Borstein

References

Fricke, R. & Eschmeyer, W.N. (Year Accessed). Eschmeyer’s Catalog of Fishes: Journals. https://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/journals.asp

Examples

my.journals<-rcatfish_journals(query="Cichlid")
my.journals<-rcatfish_journals(query="Evolution")

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