rcatfish_journals

Search for journals in the Catalog of Fishes

Accesses the California Academy of Sciences Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes in R using web requests. The Catalog of fishes is the leading authority in fish taxonomy. Functions in the package allow users to search for fish taxa and valid names, retrieve taxonomic references, retrieve monthly taxonomic changes, obtain natural history collection information, and see the number of species by taxonomic group. For more information on the Catalog: Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & R. van der Laan (eds) 2025. ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES <https://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp>.

Samuel Borstein

rcatfish

An R Interface to the California Academy of Sciences Eschmeyer's
Catalog of Fishes

Samuel R. Borstein

Brandon Dominy

Brian O'Meara

rcatfish_journals function

<dl><dt>query</dt>
<dd>Character vector to search for.</dd>
<dt>phrase</dt>
<dd>Logical. Should query be passed as a quoted phrase (e.g. "Journal of Zoology"). Default is FALSE.</dd>
<dt>sleep.time</dt>
<dd>Numeric. Time in seconds to sleep between query calls to the California Academy of Sciences page. This is set by default to 10 seconds, which is in their robots.txt. Adjust at your own risk.</dd>
<dt>verbose</dt>
<dd>Logical. Should query progress be messaged to the screen? Default is TRUE.</dd></dl>

Arguments

Author

Search for journals in the Catalog of Fishes — rcatfish_journals

<dl>

<dt>query</dt>
<dd>Character vector to search for.</dd>


<dt>phrase</dt>
<dd>Logical. Should query be passed as a quoted phrase (e.g. "Journal of Zoology"). Default is FALSE.</dd>


<dt>sleep.time</dt>
<dd>Numeric. Time in seconds to sleep between query calls to the California Academy of Sciences page. This is set by default to 10 seconds, which is in their robots.txt. Adjust at your own risk.</dd>


<dt>verbose</dt>
<dd>Logical. Should query progress be messaged to the screen? Default is TRUE.</dd>

</dl>

rcatfish_journals: Search for journals in the Catalog of Fishes

Description

Usage

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Arguments

Author

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