Minimal taxon_db_def constructor

Minimal taxon_db_def constructor for internal use. Only use when the input is known to be valid since few validity checks are done.

Usage

new_taxon_db_def(
  name = character(),
  url = character(),
  desc = character(),
  id_regex = character(),
  rank_levels = list()
)

Arguments

name

Name of the database in lower case. Inputs will be transformed to a character vector.

url

URL of the database website. Inputs will be transformed to a character vector.

desc

Description of the database. Inputs will be transformed to a character vector.

id_regex

A regular expression for taxon IDs of the database. Inputs will be transformed to a character vector.

rank_levels

Valid taxonomic ranks for the database. Should be a list of numeric vectors named by taxonomic ranks.

Value

An S3 object of class taxa_taxon_db_def