taxize (version 0.0.5)

gnr_datasources: Get data sources for the Global Names Resolver.

Description

Uses the Global Names Index, see http://gni.globalnames.org/ for information.

Usage

gnr_datasources(todf = FALSE,
    url = "http://resolver.globalnames.org/data_sources.json")

Arguments

todf

Parse id and name of provider to data.frame? logical (default = FALSE).

url

Base url for the API; leave as is.

Value

• json or xml output, your choice

Examples

# all data sources
gnr_datasources()

# just id's and names of sources
gnr_datasources(todf=T)

# give me the id for EOL
out <- gnr_datasources(todf=T)
out[out$title == "EOL", "id"]

# Fuzzy search for sources with the word zoo
out <- gnr_datasources(todf=T)
out[agrep("zoo", out$title, ignore.case=T), ]