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sp_occurrence suggests unsupported * wildcard #54

Closed plantarum closed 11 months ago

plantarum commented 1 year ago

The documentation for sp_occurrence suggests using an * as a wildcard:

https://github.com/rspatial/geodata/blob/6c784653de4b0d8000047e9118d7be21007e3685/man/sp_occurrence.Rd#L40

This doesn't work for me, and after some searching I think the API doesn't support wildcards https://discourse.gbif.org/t/searching-on-catalogue-number/3202

If I try the example from https://rspatial.org/sdm/2_sdm_occdata.html#importing-occurrence-data I get zero results:

library(geodata)
sp_occurrence("solanum", "acaule*", download=FALSE)

[1] 0

Similarly, 

sp_occurrence("solanum", "*", download=FALSE)

[1] 0

Perhaps I don't understand, as I'm not familiar with the GBIF API. But if this should work, I think there's something missing in the documentation, and possibly also the rspatial tutorial, to explain it.

rhijmans commented 11 months ago

Thanks. That used to work in some earlier version of the API (perhaps a long time ago). I have removed it from the docs.