Get the latest assessment for a particular taxonomic entity based on its ID
number from the IUCN Species Information Service (SIS). Wraps rl_sis()
and
rl_assessment()
.
Arguments
- id
(integer) The SIS ID of the taxonomic entity to look up.
- key
(character) An IUCN API token. See
rl_use_iucn()
.- parse
(logical) Whether to parse the output to list (
FALSE
) or, where possible, data.frame (TRUE
). Default:TRUE
.- ...
Includes the following arguments related to the wait time between request retries if a "Too Many Requests" error is received from the API (see HttpClient()$retry() for more details):
pause_base
,pause_cap
, andpause_min
: basis, maximum, and minimum for calculating wait time for retrytimes
: the maximum number of times to retryonwait
: a callback function if the request will be retried and a wait time is being applied
Also supports any curl options passed to the GET request via HttpClient.
Value
A list unless using a function with a trailing underscore, in which case json as character string is returned.
References
API docs at https://api.iucnredlist.org/.
See also
Assessments by taxa:
rl_class()
,
rl_family()
,
rl_kingdom()
,
rl_order()
,
rl_phylum()
,
rl_sis()
,
rl_species()
,
rl_species_latest()