gnr_datasources() returns Error: Service Unavailable (HTTP 503)

[afredston]

Finally updated my R (sessionInfo() below) and just installed the dev version of taxize. I'm running some old code (circa 2021). It breaks on gnr_datasources() and returns this error:

> gnr_datasources()
Error: Service Unavailable (HTTP 503)

> sessionInfo()
R version 4.4.2 (2024-10-31)
Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20
Running under: macOS Sequoia 15.2

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib 
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-arm64/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib;  LAPACK version 3.12.0

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

time zone: America/Los_Angeles
tzcode source: internal

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods  
[7] base     

other attached packages:
[1] taxize_0.9.102

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] digest_0.6.37     R6_2.5.1          codetools_0.2-20 
 [4] lattice_0.22-6    httpcode_0.3.0    crul_1.5.0       
 [7] zoo_1.8-12        iterators_1.0.14  parallel_4.4.2   
[10] cli_3.6.3         xml2_1.3.6        foreach_1.5.2    
[13] ape_5.8-1         grid_4.4.2        data.table_1.16.4
[16] compiler_4.4.2    rstudioapi_0.17.1 tools_4.4.2      
[19] nlme_3.1-166      curl_6.0.1        Rcpp_1.0.13-1    
[22] crayon_1.5.3      rlang_1.1.4       jsonlite_1.8.9   
[25] bold_1.3.0        stringi_1.8.4 

[zachary-foster]

Thanks for the report! The Global Names Verifier (GNR) API has not been maintianed for a few years now and it seems that it has been shut down, perhaps permantly. The replacement is Global Names Architecture (GNA). I have made an analogous function for that API called gna_data_sources and deprecated gnr_datasources in the next release of taxize.