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eol_dataobjects {taxize} | R Documentation

## Given the identifier for a data object, return all metadata about the object

### Description

Given the identifier for a data object, return all metadata about the object

### Usage

    eol_dataobjects(id, taxonomy = TRUE, usekey = TRUE, key = NULL,
      verbose = TRUE, ...)

### Arguments

`id` | (character) The EOL data object identifier
`taxonomy` | (logical) Whether to return any taxonomy details from different taxon hierarchy providers, in an array named `taxonconcepts`
`usekey` | (logical) use your API key or not (`TRUE` or `FALSE`)
`key` | (character) Your EOL API key; can load from .Rprofile if not passed as a parameter
`verbose` | (logical); If TRUE the actual taxon queried is printed on the console.
`...` | Curl options passed on to `GET`

### Details

It's possible to return JSON or XML with the EOL API. However, this function only returns JSON for now.

### Value

A list, optionally with a data.frame if `taxonomy=TRUE`

### Examples

    ## Not run:
    eol_dataobjects(id = "d72801627bf4adf1a38d9c5f10cc767f")
    eol_dataobjects(id = "21929584")

    # curl options
    library("httr")
    eol_dataobjects(id = "21929584", config = verbose())

    ## End(Not run)

[Package taxize version 0.9.0 Index]