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'td_create()' fails with The Plant List #109

Open kamapu opened 1 year ago

kamapu commented 1 year ago

I'm trying to get the species list of The Plant List using td_create(). I attempt to get the database in the folder tpl inside the working directory.

td_create(provider = "tpl", dbdir = "tpl")

I am getting following error message:

could not find v2022_dwc_tpl, v2022_common_tpl checking for older versions. v2022_dwc_tpl not availablev2022_common_tpl not available

I assume, this is a coding issue.

cboettig commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the report, we need to fix these things. Two issues here really: The Plant List is no longer actively maintained, and is listed as superseded, though the last version from 2013 is still available from their archive. Initially TPL was included following the example of taxize, but later removed reflecting that. I recommend using one of the alternative sources, such as COL, which aggregates names from most well known providers unless you have a specific need for plant list or WFO names.

Second issue, we still need to produce the 2022 snapshots, so even for other versions you may have to manually set `version=2021". apologies. so far it continued provider changes have prevented automation of this process.