R: NCBI taxon information from uids

ncbi_get_taxon_summary {taxize} | R Documentation

## NCBI taxon information from uids

### Description

Downloads summary taxon information from the NCBI taxonomy databases for a set of taxonomy UIDs using eutils esummary.

### Usage

    ncbi_get_taxon_summary(id, ...)

### Arguments

`id` | (character) NCBI taxonomy uids to retrieve information for. See Details.
`...` | Curl options passed on to `GET`

### Details

If your input vector or list of NCBI IDs is longer than about 8000 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".

### Value

A `data.frame` with the following columns:

uid

  The uid queried for

name

  The name of the taxon; a binomial name if the taxon is of rank species

rank

  The taxonomic rank (e.g. 'Genus')

### Author(s)

Zachary Foster zacharyfoster1989@Sgmail.com

### Examples

    ## Not run:
    ncbi_get_taxon_summary(c(1430660, 4751))

    # use curl options
    library("httr")
    ncbi_get_taxon_summary(c(1430660, 4751), config = verbose())

    ## End(Not run)

[Package taxize version 0.9.0 Index]