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Return a taxonomic context given a list of taxonomic names

Usage

tnrs_infer_context(names = NULL, ...)

Arguments

names

Vector of taxon names.

...

additional arguments to customize the API request (see rotl package documentation).

Value

A list including the context name, the context ott id and possibly the names in the query that have an ambiguous taxonomic meaning in the query.

Details

Find the least inclusive taxonomic context that includes all the unambiguous names in the input set. Unambiguous names are names with exact matches to non-homonym taxa. Ambiguous names (those without exact matches to non-homonym taxa) are indicated in results.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
res <- tnrs_infer_context(names=c("Stellula calliope", "Struthio camelus"))
}