Release v0.9.4 · ropensci/taxize

new contributor: Gaopeng Li
gains new functions for helping the user get authentication keys/tokens: use_entrez(), use_eol(), use_iucn() (which uses internally rredlist::rl_use_iucn()), and use_tropicos() (#682) (#691) (#693) By @maelle

fix tropicos_ping()
fixed downstream() and gbif_downstream(): some of the results don't have a canonicalName, so now safely try to get that field (#673)
fixed as.uid(), was erroring when passing in a taxon ID (#674) (#675) by @zachary-foster
fix in get_boldid() (and by extension classification(..., db = "bold")): was failing when no parent taxon found, just fill in with NA now (#680)
fix to synonyms(): was failing for some TSNs for db="itis" (#685)
fix to tax_name(): rows arg wasn't being passed on internally (#686)
fix to gnr_resolve() and gnr_datasources(): problems were caused by http scheme, switched to use https instead of http (#687)
fix to class2tree(): organisms with unique rank lower than non-unique ranks will give extra wrong rows (#689) (#690) thanks @gpli
fix in ncbi_get_taxon_summary(): changes in the NCBI API most likely lead to HTTP 414 (URI Too Long) errors. we now loop internally for the user. By extension this helps problems upsteam in downstream()/ncbi_downstream()/ncbi_children() (#698)
fix in class2tree(): was erroring when name strings contained pound signs (e.g., #) (#699) (#700) thanks @gpli

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