match_taxa @ obistools Error: (204) No Content - AphiaRecordsByMatchNames

[haniehsaeedi]

I have been using the match_taxa function in obistools and was working properly so far, but in the last few days I get this error with the same dataset that I used before and worked.
Error: (204) No Content - AphiaRecordsByMatchNames

This is my code
library("obistools")
names <- (data_merged$scientificName)
match_taxa(names)

Could this be related to WoRMS non-binomials issue ropensci/worrms#25? could you help me, please?

[pieterprovoost]

@haniehsaeedi Can you please provide some names which are causing issues? Thanks.

[haniehsaeedi]

@pieterprovoost I do not receive any error mentioning any names, only ''Error: (204) No Content - AphiaRecordsByMatchNames''

[pieterprovoost]

I presume the issue is caused by one of the names in data_merged$scientificName, would you mind sharing what they are? Or the file you are reading the names from? Thanks.

[haniehsaeedi]

data_merged.csv
Sure, the dataset is attached. But this issue was not appearing using the same dataset few months ago.

[pieterprovoost]

I'm not able to reproduce the problem with your dataset, see below. There is a known issue with worrms, but this is only triggered in the not so likely event that none of the names submitted to the WoRMS API (in batches of 50 distinct names) have taxon matching results. This does not seem to be the case here.

> data_merged <- read.csv("data_merged.csv")
> names <- data_merged$scientificName
> res <- match_taxa(names)
5484 names, 0 without matches, 132 with multiple matches

We can add a workaround in this package, but it may take a while.

[haniehsaeedi]

Thanks @pieterprovoost
I will try to update my RStudio to the newest version to see if the issue still insists.

[sformel]

@haniehsaeedi doing some housecleaning. Did you ever have a chance to see if the problem remained after updating RStudio?