bhl_namesearch: Search for a particular name.

In ropensci/rbhl: Interface to the 'Biodiversity' 'Heritage' Library

Search for a particular name.

Description

Names both with and without NameBank identifiers are returned.

Usage

bhl_namesearch(name = NULL, as = "table", key = NULL, ...)

Arguments

name	species name (character)
as	(character) Return a list ("list"), json ("json"), xml ("xml"), or parsed table ("table", default). Note that as="table" can give different data format back depending on the function - for example, sometimes a data.frame and sometimes a character vector.
key	Your BHL API key, either enter, or loads from your .Renviron as BHL_KEY or from .Rprofile as bhl_key.
...	Curl options passed on to crul::HttpClient()

Examples

## Not run: 
bhl_namesearch('poa annua')
bhl_namesearch(name='helianthus annuus')
bhl_namesearch(name='helianthus annuus', as='xml')
bhl_namesearch(name='helianthus annuus', as='json')

## End(Not run)

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