Prepare taxa list

Downloads and compiles the taxa reference list from the IMR API. The result can be bundled as package data. Run this function and save with usethis::use_data(taxaList, overwrite = TRUE) to refresh the bundled data.

Usage

prepareTaxaList(verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

verbose

Logical indicating whether the function should print progress messages.

Value

A data.table with columns tsn and name (plus additional synonym columns where available). Rows where name is NA are excluded.

Author

Mikko Vihtakari, Ibrahim Umar