On 26 Oct 2011, attempts to access records using the
eFetch system through a web browser resulted in an error, saying that eFetch
and eSearch are offline for maintainance.
As of 7 March 2012, both functions have been modified to interface with the
new BOLD architecture, and work as expected.
29 Oct 2012: It appears that BOLD has taken eFetch offline permanently,
rendering read.BOLD
as it currently stands useless. While we may be
able to work out something, this will require a complete rewrite of the
function. search.BOLD
continues to work as intended.
17 Dec 2012: A new version of read.BOLD
has been released that
appears to work (for the time being).
15 Feb 2018: 'read.BOLD' is deprecated. Please use the rOpenSci 'bold' package for better functionality.