gbif_name_usage: Lookup details for specific names in all taxonomies in GBIF.

Description

This is a taxize version of the same function in the rgbif package so as to not have to import rgbif and thus require GDAL binary installation.

Usage

gbif_name_usage(key = NULL, name = NULL, data = "all", language = NULL,
  datasetKey = NULL, uuid = NULL, sourceId = NULL, rank = NULL,
  shortname = NULL, start = NULL, limit = 20, callopts = list())

Arguments

rank

(character) Taxonomic rank. Filters by taxonomic rank as one of: CLASS, CULTIVAR, CULTIVAR_GROUP, DOMAIN, FAMILY, FORM, GENUS, INFORMAL, INFRAGENERIC_NAME, INFRAORDER, INFRASPECIFIC_NAME, INFRASUBSPECIFIC_NAME, KINGDOM, ORDER, PHYLUM, SECTION, SERIES, S

datasetKey

(character) Filters by the dataset's key (a uuid)

uuid

(character) A uuid for a dataset. Should give exact same results as datasetKey.

key

(numeric) A GBIF key for a taxon

name

(character) Filters by a case insensitive, canonical namestring, e.g. 'Puma concolor'

data

(character) Specify an option to select what data is returned. See Description below.

language

(character) Language, default is english

sourceId

(numeric) Filters by the source identifier. Not used right now.

shortname

(character) A short name..need more info on this?

callopts

Pass on options to httr::GET for more refined control of http calls, and error handling

limit

Number of records to return

start

Record number to start at

Value

A list of length two. The first element is metadata. The second is either a data.frame (verbose=FALSE, default) or a list (verbose=TRUE)

References

http://www.gbif.org/developer/summary