ecos.fws.gov

Description Usage Arguments Details Note

Note the trailing underscore, to separate from get_species_page_summary

1	get_species_page_summary_(url, species, pause = TRUE)

`url`	The url of the species page
`species`	The scientific name of the species
`pause`	Pause for 0.5-3s during scraping [default = TRUE]

By default, get_species_page_summary will fetch the species' ECOS page given the URL, but there may be times when the page has already been fetched. In those cases, the page can be specified to save time.

Apparently, FWS does not serve the same version of a species' page up twice in a row. Instead, the same information will be presented in different orders. We have to use strsplit along with str_trim to get clean lines, then sort before doing the MD5 hash.

jacob-ogre/ecosdata documentation built on May 18, 2019, 8 a.m.