
Retrieve classes and their related terms used by GBIF
Source:R/DwCTerm.R
retrieveGBIFClassSpecifications.RdRetrieve classes and their related terms used by GBIF
Arguments
- classOption
A
characterscalar that if set to"core"returns only the classes and the associated terms of GBIF's accepted core types. If set to"extension"returns only the classes and associated terms of GBIF's https://tools.gbif.org/dwca-validator/extensions.doregistered extensions."all"(the default) returns all of GBIF's registered class types.- includeDeprecated
A
logicalscalar that, ifTRUE, instructs the function to also include terms in the GBIF classes that are depracated
Value
A list containing one element per class. Each element is itself a list with the
following named elements:
termInfoA
DwCTermobject containing the information of the class termcompositeTermsA
listofDwCTermobjects for each term that is associated with the class
Author
Joseph D. Chipperfield, joechip90@googlemail.com