taxonomyGet either reads a taxonomy file and loads it
as a data frame, or loads the default taxonomy data object.
taxonomyGet(taxonomy_year, data_path = FALSE)A data.frame with 17 columns of taxonomic information: order, species code, taxon concept, common name, scientific name, family, OpenTree Taxonomy data, etc.
The eBird taxonomy year the tree should be output in. Current options are 2021-2024. Both numeric and character inputs are acceptable here. Any value aside from these years will result in an error. Default is most recent year.
Default to FALSE. If a summary, dated tree is desired, this is sufficient
and does not need to be modified. However, if a user wishes to extract a set of complete
dated trees, for example to iterate an analysis across a cloud of trees, or to use an
older version of the tree than the current one packed in the data object, this function
can also accept a path to the downloaded set of trees. If you have already downloaded the AvesData repo
available at https://github.com/McTavishLab/AvesData use data_path= the path to the download location.
Alternately, you can download the full data repo using get_avesdata_repo(). This approach will download the data and
set an environmental variable AVESDATA_PATH. When AVESDATA_PATH is set, the data_path will default to this value.
To manually set AVESDATA_PATH to the location of your downloaded AvesData repo use set_avesdata_repo_path()
This will return a data object that has the taxonomy of the requested year.