taxize (version 0.0.5)

get_uid: Get the UID codes from NCBI for species names.

Description

A function to retrieve the UID-Code (Unique Identifier) of a species from NCBI taxonomy browser.

Usage

get_uid(sciname, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

sciname

character; scientific name.

verbose

logical; If TRUE the actual taxon queried is printed on the console.

Value

• UID for the supplied species names. NA for non-matching names.

Examples

get_uid(c("Chironomus riparius", "Chaetopteryx"))
get_uid(c("Chironomus riparius", "aaa vva"))