name The name of the taxon; a binomial name if the taxon is of rank species
rank The taxonomic rank (e.g. 'Genus')
HTTP version
We hard code http_version = 2L to use HTTP/1.1 in HTTP requests to
the Entrez API. See curl::curl_symbols('CURL_HTTP_VERSION')
Authentication
See taxize-authentication for help on authentication.
We strongly recommend getting an API key
Details
If your input vector or list of NCBI IDs is longer than about
2500 characters (use nchar(paste(ids, collapse = "+"))), split
the list up into chunks since at about that number of characters you
will run into the HTTP 414 error "Request-URI Too Long".