nbn_search: Search UK National Biodiversity Network

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Search UK National Biodiversity Network

Description

Search UK National Biodiversity Network

Usage

nbn_search(
  sci_com,
  fq = NULL,
  order = NULL,
  sort = NULL,
  start = 0,
  rows = 25,
  facets = NULL,
  q = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

sci_com	(character) The query terms(s), a scientific or common name
fq	(character) Filters to be applied to the original query. These are additional params of the form fq=INDEXEDFIELD:VALUE e.g. fq=rank:kingdom. See https://species-ws.nbnatlas.org/indexFields for all the fields that are queryable.
order	(character) Supports "asc" or "desc"
sort	(character) The indexed field to sort by
start	(integer) Record offset, to enable paging
rows	(integer) Number of records to return
facets	(list) Comma separated list of the fields to create facets on e.g. facets=basis_of_record.
q	Deprecated, see sci
...	Further args passed on to crul::HttpClient.

Value

a list with slots for metadata (meta) with list of response attributes, and data (data) with a data.frame of results

Author(s)

Scott Chamberlain,

References

https://api.nbnatlas.org/

See Also

Other nbn: get_nbnid(), nbn_classification(), nbn_synonyms()

Examples

## Not run: 
x <- nbn_search(sci_com = "Vulpes")
x$meta$totalRecords
x$meta$pageSize
x$meta$urlParameters
x$meta$queryTitle
head(x$data)

nbn_search(sci_com = "blackbird", start = 4)

# debug curl stuff
nbn_search(sci_com = "blackbird", verbose = TRUE)

## End(Not run)

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