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wormsconsolidate

Recursivly retrieves respective "accepted" AphiaRecords for all synonyms if not already there

Description

takes data.frame as output by wormsbynames , wormsbymatchnames, or wormsbyid and retrieves additional Aphia records (CC-BY) for not-"accepted" records in order to ultimately have "accepted" synonyms for all records in the dataset.

Usage

wormsconsolidate(x, verbose = TRUE, sleep_btw_chunks_in_sec = 0.01,
  once = FALSE)

Arguments

`x`	data.frame
`verbose`	be verbose
`sleep_btw_chunks_in_sec`	pause between requests
`once`	only one retrival iteration. No concatination of output with result. (For debugging)

Details

This function will take a integer vector with AphiaIDs, retrive AphiaRecords from www.marinespecies.org using the GET /AphiaRecordByAphiaID Method described at http://www.marinespecies.org/rest/. Results will be outbut to a data.frame with each row being a record.

For examples, see wormsaccepted

Value

a data frame.

worms

Retriving Aphia Information from World Register of Marine Species

v0.2.2

GNU Affero General Public License

Authors

Jan Holstein [aut, cre, cph]

Initial release