wormsconsolidate: Recursivly retrieves respective "accepted" AphiaRecords for...

In worms: Retriving Aphia Information from World Register of Marine Species

Description

takes data.frame as output by wormsbynames , wormsbymatchnames, or wormsbyid and retrieves additional Aphia records (CC-BY) for not-"accepted" records in order to ultimately have "accepted" synonyms for all records in the dataset.

Usage

wormsconsolidate(x, verbose = TRUE, sleep_btw_chunks_in_sec = 0.01,
  once = FALSE)

Arguments

x	data.frame
verbose	be verbose
sleep_btw_chunks_in_sec	pause between requests
once	only one retrival iteration. No concatination of output with result. (For debugging)

Details

This function will take a integer vector with AphiaIDs, retrive AphiaRecords from www.marinespecies.org using the GET /AphiaRecordByAphiaID Method described at http://www.marinespecies.org/rest/. Results will be outbut to a data.frame with each row being a record.

For examples, see wormsaccepted

Value

a data frame.

worms documentation built on May 1, 2019, 9:22 p.m.