finbif (version 0.9.12)

finbif_taxa: Search the FinBIF taxa

Description

Search the FinBIF database for taxon.

Usage

finbif_taxa(
  name,
  n = 1,
  type = c("exact", "partial", "likely"),
  cache = getOption("finbif_use_cache")
)
common_name(name, locale = getOption("finbif_locale"))
scientific_name(name)
taxon_id(name)

Value

For finbif_taxa a finbif_taxa object. Otherwise, a character vector.

Arguments

name

Character. The name or ID of a taxon. Or, for functions other than finbif_taxa a finbif_taxa object.

n

Integer. Maximum number of matches to return. For types "exact" and "likely" only one taxon will be returned.

type

Character. Type of match to make. Must be one of exact, partial or likely.

cache

Logical or Integer. If TRUE or a number greater than zero, then data-caching will be used. If not logical then cache will be invalidated after the number of hours indicated by the argument.

locale

Character. One of the supported two-letter ISO 639-1 language codes. Current supported languages are English, Finnish and Swedish. For data where more than one language is available the language denoted by locale will be preferred while falling back to the other languages in the order indicated above.

Examples

if (FALSE) {

# Search for a taxon
finbif_taxa("Ursus arctos")

# Use partial matching
finbif_taxa("Ursus", n = 10, "partial")

# Get Swedish name of Eurasian Eagle-owl
common_name("Bubo bubo", "sv")

# Get scientific name of "Otter"
scientific_name("Otter")

# Get taxon identifier of "Otter"
taxon_id("Otter")

}