Return a list of scientific names corresponding to given the common name(s).
Usage
common_to_sci(
x,
Language = "English",
server = getOption("FISHBASE_API", "fishbase"),
version = get_latest_release(),
db = default_db()
)
Arguments
- x
a common name or list of common names
- Language
a string specifying the language for the common name, e.g. "English"
- server
can be set to either "fishbase" or "sealifebase" to switch between databases. NOTE: it is usually easier to leave this as NULL and set the source instead using the environmental variable `FISHBASE_API`, e.g. `Sys.setenv(FISHBASE_API="sealifebase")`.
- version
a version string for the database, will default to the latest release. see [get_releases()] for details.
- db
the
Details
If more than one scientific name matches the common name (e.g. "trout"), the function will simply return a list of all matching scientific names. If given more than one common name, the resulting strings of matching scientific names are simply concatenated.