Get silhouettes — get_silhouettes • orthogene

Get silhouette images of each species from phylopic.

get_silhouettes(
  species,
  which = rep(1, length(species)),
  run_format_species = TRUE,
  include_image_data = FALSE,
  mc.cores = 1,
  add_png = FALSE,
  remove_bg = FALSE,
  verbose = TRUE
)

Source

phylopic/rphylopic API changes

ggimage: Issue with finding valid PNGs

Arguments

species: A character vector of species names to query phylopic for.
which: An integer vector of the same length as species. Lets you choose which image you want to use for each species (1st, 2nd 3rd, etc.).
run_format_species: Standardise species names with format_species before querying phylopic (default: TRUE).
include_image_data: Include the image data itself (not just the image UID) in the results.
mc.cores: Accelerate multiple species queries by parallelising across multiple cores.
add_png: Return URLs for both the SVG and PNG versions of the image.
remove_bg: Remove image background.
verbose: Print messages.

Value

data.frame with:

input_species : Species name (input).
species : Species name (standardised).
uid : Species UID.
url : Image URL.

Examples

 
species <- c("Mus_musculus","Pan_troglodytes","Homo_sapiens")
uids <- get_silhouettes(species = species)
#> Loading required namespace: rphylopic
#> Gathering phylopic silhouettes.