filter_common: Look up taxonomic information by common name

In cboettig/taxald: A High-Performance Local Taxonomic Database Interface

Look up taxonomic information by common name

Description

Look up taxonomic information by common name

Usage

filter_common(
  name,
  provider = getOption("taxadb_default_provider", "itis"),
  version = latest_version(),
  collect = TRUE,
  ignore_case = TRUE,
  db = td_connect()
)

Arguments

name	a character vector of common (vernacular English) names, e.g. "Humans"
provider	from which provider should the hierarchy be returned? Default is 'itis', which can also be configured using ⁠options(default_taxadb_provider=...")⁠. See ⁠[td_create]⁠ for a list of recognized providers.
version	Which version of the taxadb provider database should we use? defaults to latest. See tl_import for details.
collect	logical, default TRUE. Should we return an in-memory data.frame (default, usually the most convenient), or a reference to lazy-eval table on disk (useful for very large tables on which we may first perform subsequent filtering operations.)
ignore_case	should we ignore case (capitalization) in matching names? Can be significantly slower to run.
db	a connection to the taxadb database. See details.

Value

a data.frame in the Darwin Core tabular format containing the matching taxonomic entities.

See Also

Other filter_by: filter_by(), filter_id(), filter_name(), filter_rank()

Examples

  

filter_common("Pied Tamarin")



  

cboettig/taxald documentation built on April 20, 2024, 12:55 p.m.