rfishbase (version 3.0.4)

common_to_sci: common_to_sci

Description

Return a list of scientific names corresponding to given the common name(s).

Usage

common_to_sci(x, Language = NULL, ..., server = NULL)

Arguments

x

a common name or list of common names

Language

a string specifying the language for the common name, e.g. "English"

...

unused; for backwards compatibility only

server

can be set to either "fishbase" or "sealifebase" to switch between databases. NOTE: it is usually easier to leave this as NULL and set the source instead using the environmental variable `FISHBASE_API`, e.g. `Sys.setenv(FISHBASE_API="sealifebase")`.

Value

a character vector of scientific names

Details

If more than one scientific name matches the common name (e.g. "trout"), the function will simply return a list of all matching scientific names. If given more than one common name, the resulting strings of matching scientific names are simply concatenated.

See Also

species_list, synonyms

Examples

# NOT RUN {
common_to_sci(c("Bicolor cleaner wrasse", "humphead parrotfish"), Language="English")
common_to_sci(c("Coho Salmon", "trout"))
# }