Get the UID codes from NCBI for species names.

Usage

get_uid(sciname, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

sciname

character; scientific name.

verbose

logical; If TRUE the actual taxon queried is printed on the console.

Examples

get_uid(c("Chironomus riparius", "Chaetopteryx"))

Retrieving data for species ' Chironomus riparius '

Retrieving data for species ' Chaetopteryx '

[1] "315576" "492549"
attr(,"class")
[1] "uid"

get_uid(c("Chironomus riparius", "aaa vva"))

Retrieving data for species ' Chironomus riparius '

Retrieving data for species ' aaa vva '

[1] "315576" NA      
attr(,"class")
[1] "uid"

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