species_names: species names

In ropensci/rfishbase: R Interface to 'FishBase'

species names

Description

returns species names given FishBase's SpecCodes

Usage

species_names(
  codes,
  server = getOption("FISHBASE_API", "fishbase"),
  version = get_latest_release(),
  db = default_db()
)

Arguments

codes	a vector of speccodes (e.g. column from a table)
server	can be set to either "fishbase" or "sealifebase" to switch between databases. NOTE: it is usually easier to leave this as NULL and set the source instead using the environmental variable 'FISHBASE_API', e.g. 'Sys.setenv(FISHBASE_API="sealifebase")'.
version	a version string for the database, will default to the latest release. see [get_releases()] for details.
db	the

Value

A character vector of species names for the SpecCodes

ropensci/rfishbase documentation built on June 27, 2023, 4:48 p.m.