mycoportal_hightax: Retrieve higher taxon records from the MyCoPortal

In FranzKrah/rMyCoPortal: rMyCoPortal - An R package to interface with the Mycology Collections Portal

Description

Retrieve higher taxon records from the MyCoPortal

Usage

mycoportal_hightax(taxon = "Polyporales", verbose = TRUE,
  screenshot = TRUE, port = 4445L, browserName = "chrome",
  remoteServerAddr = "localhost", wait = 2)

Arguments

taxon	character string specifying the taxon name (here usually higher taxon, e.g., order level)
verbose	logical
screenshot	logical, whether screenshot of results should be displayed in Viewer
port	default is 4445L
browserName	character string specifying the browser to use, recommended: "chrome"
remoteServerAddr	default is "localhost"
wait	numeric specifying the seconds to wait for website to load, recommended 2 for good internet connections, higher otherwise.

Details

Interface to the web database MyCoPortal for higher taxonomic queries, e.g., order level. Here only full query results can be retrieved. If you want to make more specific queries please try mycoportal.

Value

x an object of class "records" with the following components:

nr.records	A numeric giving the number of records retrieved
citation	A character string with the recommended citation from the website
query	A list of the user arguments used
records	A data.frame with the query records results
db	A character string specifying the database (currently only MyCoPortal)

Author(s)

Franz-Sebastian Krah

References

see mycoportal

Examples

## Not run: 
## Query Amanitacae and plot on world map or USA map
poly.dist <- mycoportal_hightax(taxon = "polyporales", taxon_type = 2)
recordsmap(poly.dist, mapdatabase = "world", legend = FALSE)
recordsmap(poly.dist, mapdatabase = "state", legend = FALSE)

## End(Not run)

FranzKrah/rMyCoPortal documentation built on May 14, 2019, 11:11 a.m.