metacoder (version 0.1.2)

class_from_taxon_id: Retrieve classifications from taxon IDs

Description

Retrieve taxonomic classifications from taxon IDs using a specified database.

Usage

class_from_taxon_id(taxon_id, database, ...)

Arguments

database
(character of length 1) The name of the database that patterns given in parser will apply to. Valid databases include "ncbi", "itis", "eol", "col", "tropicos", "nbn", and "none". "none" will cause no database to be quired; use this if you want to not use the internet. NOTE: Only "ncbi" has been tested so far.
...
Not used
name
(character) The name of a taxon. Not necessarily unique, but are interpretable by a particular database. Requires an internet connection.

Value

list of data.frame