species_names {rfishbase}

species names

Description

returns species names given FishBase's SpecCodes

Usage

species_names(
  codes,
  server = getOption("FISHBASE_API", "fishbase"),
  version = get_latest_release(),
  db = default_db()
)

Arguments

codes

a vector of speccodes (e.g. column from a table)

server

can be set to either "fishbase" or "sealifebase" to switch between databases. NOTE: it is usually easier to leave this as NULL and set the source instead using the environmental variable 'FISHBASE_API', e.g. 'Sys.setenv(FISHBASE_API="sealifebase")'.

version

a version string for the database, will default to the latest release. see [get_releases()] for details.

db

the

Value

A character vector of species names for the SpecCodes