Hi Augusto,
I took a quick look at the code for iucn_summary, and it looks like a bug to me.
I copied the package maintainer on this reply, as is appropriate for
problems with a particular package.
It looks like:
pop <- xpathSApply(h, "//div[@id=\"population\"]/text()[preceding-sibling::br]",
xmlValue)
is returning an empty list, which then throws an error in the next line:
pop <- do.call(rbind, lapply(strsplit(pop, split = ":"),
rbind))
It looks like the function works well for complete cases, but has
problems with certain missing/different data (easy mistake I've
committed myself a time or two). You've hit on one of those fringe
cases by accident, and it should be an easy update to the package.
Sarah
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Augusto Ribas <ribas.aca at gmail.com> wrote:
Hello
I'm using the package taxize and was trying to use the function
iucn_summary() but it work perfectly with the examples, but when i
try another name i receive the error msg:
#####
iucn_summary("Molossus currentium")
Erro em strsplit(pop, split = ":") : argumento modo n?o caractere
######
My r is in Portuguese, but it say argument mode not a character.
I checked this specie on iucn site and its there, dunno what is the problem.
the examples i cite are:
#
library(taxize)
iucn_summary("Lynx lynx")
iucn_summary("aaaa")
iucn_summary("Molossus currentium")
#
first two work properly, but the third give an error.. i have no idea
of what i'm doing wrong.
I'm using ubunto here, with R 2.15.2 from emacs.
Thanks for the attention.
--
Grato
Augusto C. A. Ribas