tp_search: Search Tropicos by scientific name, common name, or Tropicos...

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Search Tropicos by scientific name, common name, or Tropicos ID.

Description

Search Tropicos by scientific name, common name, or Tropicos ID.

Usage

tp_search(
  sci = NULL,
  com = NULL,
  nameid = NULL,
  orderby = NULL,
  sortorder = NULL,
  pagesize = NULL,
  startrow = NULL,
  type = NULL,
  key = NULL,
  name = NULL,
  commonname = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

sci	A scientific name, e.g., "poa annua". See Details.
com	A common name, e.g., "annual blue grass"
nameid	Your search string. e.g., "25509881"
orderby	Your search string. e.g., "1"
sortorder	Your search string. e.g., "ascending"
pagesize	Your search string. e.g., "100"
startrow	Your search string. e.g., "1"
type	Type of search, "wildcard" (default) will add a wildcard to the end of your search string. "exact" will use your search string exactly.
key	Your Tropicos API key; See taxize-authentication for help on authentication
name	Deprecated, see sci
commonname	Deprecated, see com
...	Further args passed on to crul::HttpClient

Details

More details on the name parameter: Tropicos will fail if you include a period (.) in your name string, e.g., var., so we replace periods before the request is made to the Tropicos web service. In addition, Tropicos for some reason doesn't want to see sub-specific rank names like var/subsp, so remove those from your query.

Value

List or dataframe.

References

http://services.tropicos.org/help?method=SearchNameXml

Examples

## Not run: 
tp_search(sci = 'Poa annua')
tp_search(sci = 'Poa annua subsp. annua')
tp_search(sci = 'Poa annua var. annua')
tp_search(sci = 'Poa annua var annua')
tp_search(sci = 'Poa annua annua')

## End(Not run)

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