eubon: EU BON taxonomy

Description

EU BON taxonomy

Usage

eubon(query, providers = "pesi", searchMode = "scientificNameExact",
  addSynonymy = FALSE, timeout = 0, ...)

Arguments

query

(character) The scientific name to search for. For example: "Bellis perennis", "Prionus" or "Bolinus brandaris". This is an exact search so wildcard characters are not supported

providers

(character) A list of provider id strings concatenated by comma characters. The default : "pesi,bgbm-cdm-server[col]" will be used if this parameter is not set. A list of all available provider ids can be obtained from the '/capabilities' service end poin

searchMode

(character) Specifies the searchMode. Possible search modes are: scientificNameExact, scientificNameLike (begins with), vernacularNameExact, vernacularNameLike (contains), findByIdentifier. If the a provider does not support the chosen searchMode it will

addSynonymy

(logical) Indicates whether the synonymy of the accepted taxon should be included into the response. Turning this option on may cause an increased response time.

timeout

(numeric) The maximum of milliseconds to wait for responses from any of the providers. If the timeout is exceeded the service will jut return the resonses that have been received so far. The default timeout is 0 ms (wait for ever)

...

Curl options passed on to GET

Details

Note that paging is not yet implemented, so you only get the first chunk of up to 50 results for methods that require paging. We will implement paging here when it is available in the EU BON API.

References

http://cybertaxonomy.eu/eubon-utis/doc.html

Examples

Run this code

eubon("Prionus")
eubon("Salmo", 'worms')
eubon("Salmo", c('pesi', 'worms'))
eubon("Salmo", 'worms', 'scientificNameLike')

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