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Current Fern Tree of Life (FTOL) version and related metadata

Usage

ft_data_ver(what = "ftol")

Arguments

what

Character vector of length 1; what type of data to return. Must choose from "ftol" (FTOL data version; default), "gb" (version of GenBank data used to build FTOL), or "cutoff" (cutoff date of GenBank data).

Value

Character vector of length 1

Details

FTOL is built from DNA sequence data obtained from the NCBI GenBank FTP server (https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/), which releases updated datasets periodically. For more information about the current GenBank data release, see the release notes.

Examples

ft_data_ver()
#> [1] "1.7.0"