rgbif (version 0.9.7)

datasets: Search for datasets and dataset metadata.

Description

Search for datasets and dataset metadata.

Usage

datasets(data = "all", type = NULL, uuid = NULL, query = NULL, id = NULL, limit = 100, start = NULL, ...)

Arguments

data

The type of data to get. One or more of: 'organization', 'contact', 'endpoint', 'identifier', 'tag', 'machinetag', 'comment', 'constituents', 'document', 'metadata', 'deleted', 'duplicate', 'subDataset', 'withNoEndpoint', or the special 'all'. Default: 'all'

type

Type of dataset. Options: include occurrence, checklist, metadata, or sampling_event.

uuid

UUID of the data node provider. This must be specified if data is anything other than all

query

Query term(s). Only used when data=all

id

A metadata document id.

limit

Number of records to return. Default: 100. Maximum: 1000.

start

Record number to start at. Default: 0. Use in combination with limit to page through results.

...

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

Value

A list.

References

http://www.gbif.org/developer/registry#datasets

Examples

## Not run: 
# datasets(limit=5)
# datasets(type="occurrence", limit=10)
# datasets(uuid="a6998220-7e3a-485d-9cd6-73076bd85657")
# datasets(data='contact', uuid="a6998220-7e3a-485d-9cd6-73076bd85657")
# datasets(data='metadata', uuid="a6998220-7e3a-485d-9cd6-73076bd85657")
# datasets(data='metadata', uuid="a6998220-7e3a-485d-9cd6-73076bd85657", id=598)
# datasets(data=c('deleted','duplicate'))
# datasets(data=c('deleted','duplicate'), limit=1)
# 
# # httr options
# library('httr')
# res <- datasets(data=c('deleted','duplicate'), config=progress())
# ## End(Not run)