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

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)