taxonomy_about: Information about the Open Tree Taxonomy

In rotl: Interface to the 'Open Tree of Life' API

Information about the Open Tree Taxonomy

Description

Summary information about the Open Tree Taxonomy (OTT)

Usage

taxonomy_about(...)

Arguments

...	additional arguments to customize the API request (see rotl package documentation).

Details

Return metadata and information about the taxonomy itself. Currently, the available metadata is fairly sparse, but includes (at least) the version, and the location from which the complete taxonomy source files can be downloaded.

Value

A list with the following properties:

weburl

String. The release page for this version of the taxonomy.

author

String. The author string.

name

String. The name of the taxonomy.

source

String. The full identifying information for this version of the taxonomy.

version

String. The version number of the taxonomy.

Examples

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taxonomy_about()

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