Search for taxonomy data from Plantminer.com

Usage

plantminer(plants, key = NULL)

Arguments

plants

Vector of plant species names.

key

Your api key for the plantminer.com site. Go to http://www.plantminer.com/ to get your api key. Two options for inputting your key. 1) You can input it manually within the function as the second argument, or 2) you can put the key in your .Rprofile file, which will then be loaded when you start R. See https://github.com/ropensci/rOpenSci/wiki/Installation-and-use-of-API-keys for help on how to put api keys in your .Rprofile file.

Examples

plants <- c("Myrcia lingua", "Myrcia bella", "Ocotea pulchella",
                "Miconia", "Coffea arabica var. amarella", "Bleh")
plantminer(plants)
Myrcia lingua 
Myrcia bella 
Ocotea pulchella 
Miconia 
Coffea arabica var. amarella 
Bleh 

              fam   genus                    sp             author           source
1       Myrtaceae  Myrcia                lingua   (O. Berg) Mattos              TRO
2       Myrtaceae  Myrcia                 bella           Cambess.             WCSP
3       Lauraceae  Ocotea             pulchella (Nees & Mart.) Mez WCSP (in review)
4 Melastomataceae Miconia                    NA        Ruiz & Pav.              TRO
5       Rubiaceae  Coffea arabica var. amarella        A. Froehner              TRO
6              NA    Bleh                    NA                 NA               NA
  source.id   status confidence suggestion       database
1 100227036       NA         NA         NA       Tropicos
2    131057 Accepted          H         NA The Plant List
3    989758 Accepted          M         NA The Plant List
4  40018467       NA         NA         NA       Tropicos
5 100170231       NA         NA         NA       Tropicos
6        NA       NA         NA       Baea             NA