Get all different values that exist for a field

This is a wrapper for the method get_distinct_values from class SpecimenClient.

specimen_get_distinct_values(field = NULL, queryParams = list(),
  returnType = "data.frame", ...)

Arguments

field	Name of field in specimen object, type:
queryParams	Named list or vector with names being the fields to be queried and values being the values to match
returnType	Either list or data.frame (default)
...	additional parameters passed to get_distinct_values from class nbaR.SpecimenClient

Value

scalar

Details

A list of all fields for specimen documents can be retrieved with /metadata/getFieldInfo

See also

Other nbaR.SpecimenClient-wrappers: specimen_count_distinct_values_per_group, specimen_count_distinct_values, specimen_count, specimen_download_query, specimen_dwca_get_data_set_names, specimen_dwca_get_data_set, specimen_dwca_query, specimen_exists, specimen_find_by_ids, specimen_find_by_unit_id, specimen_find, specimen_get_distinct_values_per_group, specimen_get_field_info, specimen_get_ids_in_collection, specimen_get_named_collections, specimen_get_paths, specimen_get_settings, specimen_get_setting, specimen_group_by_scientific_name, specimen_is_operator_allowed, specimen_query