Retrieves Taxa resources from the Symbiota2 server

Functions that retrieve Taxa resources from the server previously connected to. Each function either retrieves an individual resource or a page of resources, depending on the arguments provided.

Usage

Taxa(id, page, url = NULL)

Authorities(id, page, url = NULL)

DescriptionBlock(id, page, url = NULL)

Synonymy(id, page, url = NULL)

Arguments

id: id value (usually numeric, but not always) used to refer to the specific resource to pull from the database
page: numeric value referring to the page of resources to pull. If neither an id or a page parameter is provided, function will pull the first page of resources (i.e. page=1)
url: URL string of the Symbiota2 portal to be connected to. A trailing / will be appended, if it is not given.

Value

If using id, the specific resource specified; if using page, the page specified of resources

Note

To specify a default URL to refer to, see SymbiotaR2_setup()

Author

Austin Koontz

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Pulling a page of Taxa resources, from a (nonexistent) dummy portal
object <- Taxa(page = 2, url = "http://dummy-portal.com/api/")
} # }