species_info error - dimensions dropped about ala4r HOT 3 CLOSED

Thanks, well spotted, fixed in v1.17. I hadn't previously seen taxa with that sort of improper classificaton. For those taxa, the returned classification is just a string, not a data.frame. I've avoided the error, but it does mean that the returned result$classification object is just a string, not a data.frame as it is for taxa with proper classifications. But I don't see any easy way of fixing this at the R end, it would require the underlying ALA taxonomic information to be corrected.

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Nice one, thanks for the explanation.

On Wednesday, 27 May 2015, Ben Raymond [email protected] wrote:

Thanks, well spotted, fixed in v1.17. I hadn't previously seen taxa with
that sort of improper classificaton. For those taxa, the returned
classification is just a string, not a data.frame. I've avoided the error,
but it does mean that the returned result$classification object is just a
string, not a data.frame as it is for taxa with proper classifications. But
I don't see any easy way of fixing this at the R end, it would require the
underlying ALA taxonomic information to be corrected.

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Minor update in v1.18: the result$classification object in these cases will now be a data.frame (though with only one column and one row). Note that this change may affect other elements of the result object that were previously single-element string or numeric, because they will now also be left as single-element data.frames.

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