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Returns every taxonomic backbone taxify() can match against, its taxonomic scope, and (once the manifest is reachable) its current version, name count, download size, and whether it is already installed locally. The counterpart to list_enrichments() for the backbone side.

Usage

list_backbones(verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

verbose

Logical. Default TRUE.

Value

A data.frame with columns: name, scope, n_names, size_mb, version, source_date, installed, source. n_names, size_mb, and version are NA for any backbone the manifest does not yet describe or when the manifest cannot be fetched offline.

version is the release that packaged the backbone; source_date is the date of the upstream data, which can be much earlier. The GBIF backbone is the case that matters: GBIF froze it at 2023-08-28 and has said it will not be updated again, so a current release tag there carries a treatment three years older than the tag suggests. source_date is NA for a backbone whose upstream date has not been recorded.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
list_backbones()
} # }