Problem with rfishbase fb_tbl()

[martinfriedrichsmanthey]

Hi all,

I just tried to run an older R script to download trait information from rfishbase. However, the code gives me an error which I don't really understand. Would be great to get some help here.

"specs" is a list of species names from freshwater fish in Germany.

merge results with traits from fishbase.org

specs<-all_specs_Germany$species ####get species list
specs<-gsub("_"," ", specs) #### modify species names
tmp<-fb_tbl("species") %>% ##### download traits from fishbase --> there are more traits available, but often duplicated with FE.info or low coverage
mutate(sci_name = paste(Genus, Species)) %>%
filter(sci_name %in% specs)

And the error:

tmp<-fb_tbl("species") %>% ##### download traits from fishbase --> there are more traits available, but often duplicated with FE.info or low coverage

• mutate(sci_name = paste(Genus, Species)) %>%
• filter(sci_name %in% specs)
  Error in stop_bad_type():
  ! Result 1 must be a single string, not a list of length 2
  Run rlang::last_trace() to see where the error occurred.

ANy idea how to solve this?

Best,
Martin