getTaxonList {neonOS}

Get NEON taxon table

Description

This is a function to retrieve a taxon table from the NEON data portal for a given taxon type and provide it in a tractable format.

Usage

getTaxonList(
  taxonType = NA,
  recordReturnLimit = NA,
  stream = "true",
  verbose = "false",
  token = NA
)

Arguments

taxonType

The taxonTypeCode to access. Must be one of ALGAE, BEETLE, BIRD, FISH, HERPETOLOGY, MACROINVERTEBRATE, MOSQUITO, MOSQUITO_PATHOGENS, SMALL_MAMMAL, PLANT, TICK [character]

recordReturnLimit

The number of items to limit the result set to. If NA (the default), will return either the first 100 records, or all records in the table, depending on the value of ‘stream'. Use 'stream=’true'' to get all records. [integer]

stream

True or false, obtain the results as a stream. Utilize for large requests. Note this is lowercase true and false as character strings, not logical. [character]

verbose

True or false, include all possible taxonomic parameters. Defaults to false, only essential parameters. Note this is lowercase true and false as character strings, not logical. [character]

token

User specific API token (generated within neon.datascience.org user account) [character]

Value

Data frame with selected NEON taxonomic data

Author(s)

Eric R. Sokol [e-mail]

References

License: GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 19 November 2007

Examples

# taxonTypeCode must be one of	
# ALGAE, BEETLE, BIRD, FISH,	
# HERPETOLOGY, MACROINVERTEBRATE, 
# MOSQUITO, MOSQUITO_PATHOGENS,	
# SMALL_MAMMAL, PLANT, TICK	
#################################	
# get the first 4 fish taxa	
taxa_table <- getTaxonList('FISH', recordReturnLimit = 4)