species_info: Fetch a taxon profile given a scientific name or LSID (GUID)

In fozy81/NBN4R: National Biodiversity Network Atlas (UK and Ireland) Data and Resources in R

Description

Fetch a taxon profile given a scientific name or LSID (GUID)

Usage

species_info(scientificname, guid, verbose = nbn_config()$verbose)

Arguments

scientificname	string: scientific name of the taxon of interest (species, genus, family etc)
guid	string: The Life Science Identifier of the taxon of interest
verbose	logical: show additional progress information? [default is set by nbn_config()]

Value

A species profile in the form of a named list, each element of which is generally a data frame. An empty list is returned if no match is found for the supplied name or guid

References

Associated NBN web service: https://api.nbnatlas.org/#ws80

See Also

nbn_config

Examples

## Not run: 
 species_info("Diatoma tenuis")
 species_info(guid="NHMSYS0000080188")
 species_info("Diatoma",verbose=TRUE)

## End(Not run)

fozy81/NBN4R documentation built on May 19, 2019, 8:22 a.m.