Index Fungorum

Search for taxonomic names in Index Fungorum

fg_name_search(q, anywhere = TRUE, limit = 10, ...)

fg_author_search(q, anywhere = TRUE, limit = 10, ...)

fg_epithet_search(q, anywhere = TRUE, limit = 10, ...)

fg_name_by_key(key, ...)

fg_name_full_by_lsid(lsid, ...)

fg_all_updated_names(date, ...)

fg_deprecated_names(date, ...)

Arguments

q

(character) Query term

anywhere

(logical) Default: TRUE

limit

(integer) Number of results to return. max limit value appears to be 6000, not positive about that though

...

Curl options passed on to crul::verb-GET

key

(character) A IndexFungorum taxon key

lsid

(character) an LSID, e.,g. "urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:names:81085"

date

(character) Date, of the form YYYMMDD

Value

A data.frame, or NULL if no results

References

http://www.indexfungorum.org/, API docs: http://www.indexfungorum.org/ixfwebservice/fungus.asmx

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# NameSearch
fg_name_search(q = "Gymnopus", limit = 2, verbose = TRUE)
fg_name_search(q = "Gymnopus")

# EpithetSearch
fg_epithet_search(q = "phalloides")

# NameByKey
fg_name_by_key(17703)

# NameFullByKey
fg_name_full_by_lsid("urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:names:81085")

# AllUpdatedNames
fg_all_updated_names(date = gsub("-", "", Sys.Date() - 2))

# DeprecatedNames
fg_deprecated_names(date=20151001)

# AuthorSearch
fg_author_search(q = "Fayod", limit = 2)
}