metacoder (version 0.1.3)

class_from_name: Retrieve classifications from taxon names

Description

Retrieve taxonomic classifications from taxon names using a specified database.

Usage

class_from_name(name, database, ...)

Arguments

name

(character) The name of a taxon. Not necessarily unique, but are interpretable by a particular database. Requires an internet connection.

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

Value

list of data.frame