rl_synonyms {rredlist}R Documentation

Get species synonym information by taxonomic name

Description

Get species synonym information by taxonomic name

Usage

rl_synonyms(name = NULL, key = NULL, parse = TRUE, ...)

rl_synonyms_(name = NULL, key = NULL, ...)

Arguments

name

(character) Binomial taxonomic name

key

A IUCN API token. See http://apiv3.iucnredlist.org/api/v3/token to get a token

parse

(logical) Whether to parse to list (FALSE) or data.frame (TRUE). Default: TRUE

...

Curl options passed to HttpClient

Value

A list, with the data in the result slot, unless using a function with a trailing underscore, in which case json as character string is returned.

References

API docs at http://apiv3.iucnredlist.org/api/v3/docs

Examples

## Not run: 
rl_synonyms('Loxodonta africana')
rl_synonyms('Loxodonta africana', parse = FALSE)
rl_synonyms_('Loxodonta africana')

## End(Not run)
[Package rredlist version 0.4.0 Index]