List the regions accepted by region= — taxify

Returns every region code and name the region argument of taxify() resolves, across both vocabularies it accepts, optionally filtered by a search term matched (case- and accent-insensitively) against the code and all three level names.

Usage

taxify_regions(search = NULL, scheme = c("all", "wgsrpd", "meow"))

Arguments

search: Optional character string. If supplied, only regions whose code or name contains it are returned.
scheme: Which vocabulary to list: "all" (the default), "wgsrpd" for the botanical regions, or "meow" for the marine ones.

Value

A data.frame with columns code, name, level2_name, level1_name, and scheme, one row per region.

Details

Botanical regions (scheme = "wgsrpd") come from the bundled WGSRPD (World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions) Level 3 crosswalk, and are also the codes add_wcvp() uses. Marine regions (scheme = "meow") are the Marine Ecoregions of the World, listed only when the marine_distribution asset is installed, since that is also when region= resolves them. The two schemes nest the same way, so they share the three name columns: a MEOW ecoregion is the name, its province the level2_name, and its realm the level1_name.

Examples

head(taxify_regions())
taxify_regions("belgium")
taxify_regions("Europe")