get_darwin_core_info: Retrieve Information about Darwin Core Terms

In bd-R/bdDwC: Darwin Core (DwC) Field Name Standardizer in R

Description

'get_darwin_core_info()' is a function (not exported) to download Darwin Core Terms. This information is displayed when using manually renaming.

Usage

get_darwin_core_info(
  path_darwin_cloud = "http://tdwg.github.io/dwc/terms/",
  regex_term = "table-secondary",
  regex_name = ".*>(.*)\\s<span.*",
  regex_definition = ".*</td><td>(.*)</td></tr>.*",
  name_to_def = 2
)

Arguments

path_darwin_cloud	a character string that specifies path to Darwin
regex_term	a character string with regular expression to find positions of Darwin Core Terms
regex_name	a character string with regular expression to extract term
name_to_def	a single numeric value specifying in how many rows from the term name it's definition is stored
regex_defition	a character string with regular expression to extract terms definition

Value

a data.frame that contains name and definition for each available Darwin Cloud term

See Also

Other dictionary functions: clean_dwc(), download_cloud_data()

bd-R/bdDwC documentation built on Oct. 4, 2021, 11:06 a.m.