taxize (version 0.0.5)

eol_hierarchy: Retrieve all taxonomic hierarchy from given EOL taxonID.

Description

Retrieve all taxonomic hierarchy from given EOL taxonID.

Usage

eol_hierarchy(taxonid, common_names = NULL,
    synonyms = NULL, usekey = FALSE,
    returntype = "data.frame",
    url = "http://www.eol.org/api/hierarchy_entries/1.0/",
    key = NULL)

Arguments

taxonid

the EOL page identifier (character)

common_names

Return common names or not (defaults to returning them, given commonnames=0 if not)

synonyms

Return synonyms or not (defaults to returning them, given synonyms=0 if not)

usekey

use your API key or not (TRUE or FALSE)

returntype

one of "list" of "data.frame" (character)

url

The EOL url for the function (should be left to default).

key

Your EOL API key; loads from .Rprofile.

Value

• List or dataframe of XXXX.

Details

It's possible to return JSON or XML with the EOL API. However, this function only returns JSON for now.

Examples

pageid <- eol_search('Pomatomus')$id[1]
out <- eol_pages(taxonconceptID=pageid)
eol_hierarchy(out[out$nameAccordingTo == "NCBI Taxonomy", "identifier"])
eol_hierarchy(out[out$nameAccordingTo == "Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)", "identifier"])