Retrieve immediate descendents of a taxon — children • taxizedb

Retrieve immediate descendents of a taxon

Usage

children(x, db = "ncbi", verbose = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

x: (character) Vector of taxon keys for the given database
db: (character) The database to search, one of ncbi, itis, gbif, col, or wfo
verbose: (logical) Print verbose messages
...: Additional arguments passed to database specific function.

Value

list of tibbles with the columns: id, name, rank. This is exactly equivalent to the output of taxize::children()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
children(c(3700, 2))
children(c(154395, 154357), db = "itis")
children("wfo-4000032377", db = "wfo")
children(2877951, db = "gbif")
children("C66T4", db = "col") # Abies Mill. Mill.
} # }