rotl (version 3.0.0)

taxonomy_taxon_info: Taxon information

Description

Information about taxa.

Usage

taxonomy_taxon_info(ott_ids, include_children = FALSE, include_lineage = FALSE, include_terminal_descendants = FALSE, ...)
"tax_rank"(tax, ...)
"tax_name"(tax, ...)
"unique_name"(tax, ...)
"synonyms"(tax, ...)
"ott_id"(tax, ...)
"tax_sources"(tax, ...)
"is_suppressed"(tax, ...)
"flags"(tax, ...)

Arguments

ott_ids

the ott ids of the taxon of interest (numeric or character containing only numbers)

include_children

whether to include information about all the children of this taxon. Default FALSE.

include_lineage

whether to include information about all the higher level taxa that include the ott_ids. Default FALSE.

include_terminal_descendants

whether to include the list of terminal ott_ids contained in the ott_ids provided.

...

additional arguments to customize the API request (see rotl package documentation).

tax

an object generated by the taxonomy_taxon_info function

Value

taxonomy_taxon_info returns a list detailing information about the taxa. tax_rank and tax_name return a vector. synonyms returns a list whose elements are the synonyms for each of the ott_id requested.

Details

Given a vector of ott ids, taxonomy_taxon_info returns information about the specified taxa.

The functions tax_rank, tax_name, and synonyms can extract this information from an object created by the taxonomy_taxon_info().

See Also

tnrs_match_names to obtain ott_id from a taxonomic name.

Examples

## Not run: 
# req <- taxonomy_taxon_info(ott_id=515698)
# tax_rank(req)
# tax_name(req)
# synonyms(req)
# ## End(Not run)