R/DwCTerm.R
retrieveGBIFClassSpecifications.Rd
Retrieve classes and their related terms used by GBIF
retrieveGBIFClassSpecifications(classOption = "all", includeDeprecated = FALSE)
A character
scalar 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.
A logical
scalar that, if TRUE
, instructs the function to also include terms in the GBIF classes that are depracated
A list
containing one element per class. Each element is itself a list
with the
following named elements:
termInfoA DwCTerm
object containing the information of the class term
compositeTermsA list
of DwCTerm
objects for each term that is associated with
the class
retrieveDwCTermSpecifications
DwCTerm