rgbif (version 0.8.4)

parsenames: Parse taxon names using the GBIF name parser.

Description

Parse taxon names using the GBIF name parser.

Usage

parsenames(scientificname, ...)

Arguments

scientificname

A character vector of scientific names.

...

Further named parameters, such as query, path, etc, passed on to modify_url within GET call. Unnamed parameters will be comb

Value

• A data.frame containing fields extracted from parsed taxon names. Fields returned are the union of fields extracted from all species names in scientificname.

References

http://www.gbif.org/developer/species#parser

Examples

parsenames(scientificname='x Agropogon littoralis')
parsenames(c('Arrhenatherum elatius var. elatius',
             'Secale cereale subsp. cereale', 'Secale cereale ssp. cereale',
             'Vanessa atalanta (Linnaeus, 1758)'))

# Pass on options to httr
library('httr')
res <- parsenames(c('Arrhenatherum elatius var. elatius',
             'Secale cereale subsp. cereale', 'Secale cereale ssp. cereale',
             'Vanessa atalanta (Linnaeus, 1758)'), config=progress())