Scott Chamberlain

here's a `vcr` example https://github.com/ropensci/taxizedb/commit/9fa54201fbc2d793491e2693e93932b9eb14f0e0 on a diff. branch but i'm still working on some bugs (See https://github.com/ropensci/vcr/milestone/1) - if i can get it to cran soon then we can...

> Perhaps we should allow the user to select which name classes to allow? that seems reasonable, by default excluding `type material` and `acronym`?

this is what we get with `get_uid` ```r taxize::get_uid("s2") #> #> Retrieving data for taxon 's2' #> #> [1] "164330" #> attr(,"class") #> [1] "uid" #> attr(,"match") #> [1] "found"...

unfortunately, taxizedb::classificaiton expects a taxon id, not a taxon name `taxizedb::classification(10744)`

weird, didn't realize names sometimes work. on a related note, if you want to take over maintainer role, please do

The COL database preparation has run into a problem

follow https://github.com/sckott/col-sql/issues/1 for updates my repo https://github.com/sckott/col-sql/ where I make a SQLite version of the COL database ran into issues as COL has changed how they provide the database dump....

Thanks for the correction, yes, sckott not ropensci on that other repo. I'll fix that. Perhaps taxizedb is trying to use a bad/corrupted download of the Col database. In R,...

Sorry for late reply, i'm moving on to a new job, so won't be maintaining this any longer. No, you didn't need to download the col-sql repo. You can download...

of course, and thx for the well wishes. You might want to try https://cloud.r-project.org/web/packages/taxadb/ as a somewhat similar approach to this pkg