search.BOLD
retrieves BOLD process identification numbers for any
given taxon using the API for BOLD version 3.0. By default, it only returns
the first 500 process IDs for the given taxon. By selecting the option
exhaustive = TRUE
, the function can be made to search for more than
500 process IDs, but is much slower.
stats.BOLD
retrieves the total number of records for the given taxon.
read.BOLD
downloads the sequences associated with the process
identification numbers using a brute force method of downloading the
specimen record, then searching and splitting the HTML code to remove the
relevant information. This process is likely to make the function fairly
unstable if BOLD make any changes to their website.
Previous versions of read.BOLD
used the eFetch web service offered by
BOLD to enable batch retrieval of records, however from October 2012 BOLD
deprecated eFetch without providing a replacement service.