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Search by Vertnet occurrence ID

Source: R/vert_id.R
vert_id.Rd

Search by Vertnet occurrence ID

Usage

vert_id(ids, compact = TRUE, messages = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

ids

(character) VertNet IDs, one or more. Required.

compact

(logical) Return a compact data frame. That is, remove empty columns. Default: TRUE

messages

(logical) Print progress and information messages. Default: TRUE

...

Curl arguments passed on to crul::HttpClient

Value

A list, with data frame of search results, and list of metadata

Details

VertNet IDs can be a variety of things, some URIs (i.e., with http://...), while others start with urn.

Internally in this function we filter data to darwin core terms only. To see what terms we use, see: print(simple_dwc_terms).

See documentation for more information: ?simple_dwc_terms

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
vert_id(ids = "urn:catalog:CM:Herps:116520")
ids <- c("http://arctos.database.museum/guid/MSB:Mamm:56979?seid=1643089", 
         "urn:catalog:CM:Herps:116520",
         "urn:catalog:AUM:Fish:13271")
res <- vert_id(ids)
res$data$occurrenceid

out <- vertsearch(taxon = "aves", state = "california", limit = 5)
(ids <- out$data$occurrenceid)
res <- vert_id(ids)
identical(sort(res$data$occurrenceid), sort(ids))
} # }