Error in worms_downstream

[Mogzzzzz]

Hey everyone,

I've just started a massive nucleotidic analyses (metabarcoding) for marine fauna.

I would like to build a databank with all taxonomic children of Metazoa (AphiaID = 2), to do this Im using worms_dowstream with the following command :

metazoa_marine_children <- worms_downstream(id = 2, downto = "species", marine_only = TRUE)

But I only get an error message which is :

Error in vapply(x$rank, function(z) which_rank(z, zoo = zoo), 1) :
values must be length 1,
but FUN(X[[284]]) result is length 0

Can someone help to understand why when I want all of these data it doesn't work, but if I reduce for example to a choosen family and all her species it works?

[bart-v]

The WoRMS API is not build for getting children in rather small batches, for 200k+ records.
Better to ask for a dump

[Mogzzzzz]

What do u mean by asking for a dump?

[Mogzzzzz]

oh yeah u mean a complete dowload copy from worrms! ok thanks!

[bart-v]

Correct

[zachary-foster]

Your command seems to just hang for me, at least 10 minutes without doing anything. I see that you are trying to download everything by using the code for "Animalia". As bart-v says, downloading the entire database would probably be a better way to do this.