Search the CANADENSYS Vascan API.

Search the CANADENSYS Vascan API.

vascan_search(q, format = "json", raw = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

q

(character) Can be a scientific name, a vernacular name or a VASCAN taxon identifier (e.g. 861)

format

(character) One of json (default) or xml.

raw

(logical) If TRUE, raw json or xml returned, if FALSE, parsed data returned.

...

(list) Further args passed on to crul::verb-GET

Value

json, xml or a list.

Details

Note that we lowercase all outputs in data.frame's, but when a list is given back, we don't touch the list names.

References

API docs https://data.canadensys.net/vascan/api

Author

Scott Chamberlain

Examples

if (FALSE) {
vascan_search(q = "Helianthus annuus")
vascan_search(q = "Helianthus annuus", raw=TRUE)
vascan_search(q = c("Helianthus annuus", "Crataegus dodgei"), raw=TRUE)

# format type
## json
c <- vascan_search(q = "Helianthus annuus", format="json", raw=TRUE)
library("jsonlite")
fromJSON(c, FALSE)

## xml
d <- vascan_search(q = "Helianthus annuus", format="xml", raw=TRUE)
library("xml2")
xml2::read_xml(d)

# lots of names, in this case 50
splist <- names_list(rank='species', size=50)
vascan_search(q = splist)

# Curl options
invisible(vascan_search(q = "Helianthus annuus", verbose = TRUE))
}