Get species info

Get the scientific species name, the common name and the taxonomic ID for any of the species supported by einprot (see getSupportedSpecies() for a list of supported species).

getSpeciesInfo(species)

Arguments

species

Character or numeric scalar, representing either a scientific species ID, a common species name or a taxonomic ID for one of the species supported by einprot.

Value

A list with three elements: the scientific species name, the common name and the taxonomic ID.

Author

Charlotte Soneson

Examples

getSpeciesInfo("mouse")
#> $species
#> [1] "Mus musculus"
#> 
#> $speciesCommon
#> [1] "mouse"
#> 
#> $taxId
#> [1] 10090
#> 
getSpeciesInfo(6239)
#> $species
#> [1] "Caenorhabditis elegans"
#> 
#> $speciesCommon
#> [1] "roundworm"
#> 
#> $taxId
#> [1] 6239
#> 
getSpeciesInfo("Homo sapiens")
#> $species
#> [1] "Homo sapiens"
#> 
#> $speciesCommon
#> [1] "human"
#> 
#> $taxId
#> [1] 9606
#> 
## unsupported species
getSpeciesInfo("E.coli")
#> Warning: Unknown species E.coli
#> $species
#> [1] "E.coli"
#> 
#> $speciesCommon
#> [1] ""
#> 
#> $taxId
#> [1] NA
#>