Download species' information from the IUCN RedList online database (No longer supported)

Get species' information from the IUCN website(https://www.iucnredlist.org/) for one or more species.

Usage

lets.iucn(input, count = FALSE)

Arguments

input: Character vector with one or more species names, or an object of class PresenceAbsence.
count: Logical, if TRUE a counting window will open.

Value

Returns a data frame with the Species Name, Family, Conservation Status, Criteria used to estabilish the conservation status, Population Status, Year of Description (only for animals), and the Countries where it occurs. If species do not have information (i.e. have not been evaluated), the result is: NE (Not evaluated).

Details

Note that you must be connected to the internet to use this function.

Author

Bruno Vilela

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# Single species
lets.iucn("Pongo pygmaeus")

# Multiple species
sp <- c("Musonycteris harrisoni", "Ailuropoda melanoleuca",
        "Cebus flavius")
lets.iucn(sp)
}