Given the identifier for a data object, return all metadata about the object — eol_dataobjects • taxize

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

eol_dataobjects(id, taxonomy = TRUE, language = NULL, ...)

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
language: (character) provides the results in the specified language. one of ms, de, en, es, fr, gl, it, nl, nb, oc, pt-BR, sv, tl, mk, sr, uk, ar, zh-Hans, zh-Hant, ko
...: Curl options passed on to crul::HttpClient

Value

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

Details

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

Examples

if (FALSE) {
eol_dataobjects(id = 7561533)

# curl options
eol_dataobjects(id = 7561533, verbose = TRUE)
}