taxize (version 0.7.9)

ncbi_get_taxon_summary: NCBI taxon information from uids

Description

Downloads summary taxon information from the NCBI taxonomy databases for a set of taxonomy UIDs using eutils esummary.

Usage

ncbi_get_taxon_summary(id, ...)

Arguments

id

(character) NCBI taxonomy uids to retrieve information for. See Details.

...

Curl options passed on to GET

Value

A data.frame with the following rows:

Details

If your input vector or list of NCBI IDs is longer than about 8000 characters (use nchar(paste(ids, collapse = "+"))), split the list up into chunks since at about that number of characters you will run into the HTTP 414 error "Request-URI Too Long".

Examples

## Not run: 
# ncbi_get_taxon_summary(c(1430660, 4751))
# 
# # use curl options
# library("httr")
# ncbi_get_taxon_summary(c(1430660, 4751), config = verbose())
# ## End(Not run)