wormsbymatchnames: GET AphiaRecordsByMatchNames

In janhoo/worms: Retriving Aphia Information from World Register of Marine Species

Description

takes character vector with taxon names and retrives AphiaRecords from WoRMS

Usage

wormsbymatchnames(taxon_names, verbose = TRUE, ids = FALSE,
  chunksize = 50, marine_only = "true", sleep_btw_chunks_in_sec = 0.1)

Arguments

taxon_names	character vector with names of taxa to look up.
verbose	be verbose
ids	add column "id" and "name" with running id and search names
chunksize	only 50 taxa can be looked up per request, so request are split up into chunks (should be 50 or less)
marine_only	Limit to marine taxa. Default=true
sleep_btw_chunks_in_sec	pause between requests

Details

This function will take a character vector with taxon names, retrive AphiaRecords (CC-BY) from www.marinespecies.org using the GET /AphiaRecordsByName/ScientificName Method described at http://www.marinespecies.org/rest/. Results will be output to a data.frame with each row being a record. For each name given, only the one AphiaRecord will be retrived. AphiaRecord with "accepted" status are preferred. If not present last entry will be taken which seems to result in best results.

Value

a data frame.

janhoo/worms documentation built on May 20, 2019, 2:45 p.m.