taxize (version 0.2.0)

eol_hierarchy: Retrieve the taxonomic hierarchy from given EOL taxonID.

Description

THIS FUNCTION IS DEPRECATED.

Usage

eol_hierarchy(taxonid, common_names = NULL, synonyms = NULL, key = NULL,
  callopts = list())

Arguments

taxonid

the EOL page identifier (character)

common_names

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

synonyms

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

key

Your EOL API key; loads from .Rprofile.

callopts

Further args passed on to GET.

Value

• List or dataframe of results.

Details

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

Examples

# Using get_eolid
eol_hierarchy(get_eolid(sciname='Poa annua'))