ala_list: Species lists

In AtlasOfLivingAustralia/ALA4R: Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) Data and Resources in R

Description

Retrieves a specified species list. See ala_lists to find all available species lists.

Usage

ala_list(druid, kvp = TRUE, verbose = ala_config()$verbose)

Arguments

druid	string: data resource UID of the list (i.e. the list identifier)
kvp	logical: include key-value pairs? Some lists contain information about the species in the form of key-value pairs
verbose	logical: show additional progress information?

Details

Note that this refers to pre-generated lists of species stored on the ALA servers. The similarly-named but different function specieslist provides a different function, namely listing the species matching a query or recorded as present in a search area.

Value

data.frame

References

https://lists.ala.org.au and the associated web services at https://lists.ala.org.au/ws

See Also

specieslist, ala_lists

Examples

## Not run: 
 all_lists <- ala_lists()
 ## find the "Field Guide apps species profiles" from Museum Victoria
 all_lists[grep("Field Guide", all_lists$listName), ]

 ## download the vertebrates one
 l <- ala_list(druid = "dr1146")

## End(Not run)

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