occCite Data Class

A class for managing metadata associated with occCite queries and data manipulation.

Slots

userQueryType

A vector of type character specifying whether the user made their original taxonomic query based on a vector of taxon names or a phylogeny.

userSpecTaxonomy

A vector of type character that presents a list of taxonomic sources for cleaning taxonomy of queries. This can be user-specified or default.

cleanedTaxonomy

A data frame with containing input taxon names, the closest match according to taxize::gnr_resolve, and a list of taxonomic data sources that contain the matching name, generated by studyTaxonList.

occSources

A vector of class "character" containing a list of occurrence data sources, generated when passing a occCiteData object through occQuery.

occCiteSearchDate

The date on which the occurrence search query was conducted via occCite.

occResults

The results of an occQuery search, stored as a named list, each of the items named after a searched taxon and containing a data frame with occurrence information.