Problems with downloading all trees with a fixed number of taxa

[MareikeFischer]

Hello,

I was following the manual's example:

all trees with 5 taxa

five <- search_treebase(5, by="ntax", max_trees = 10)

When I type exactly this line in R, I get for instance the following trees (tree ID followed by number of taxa):

4120, 5
65619, 38
65561, 10
2826, 5
66495, 6
2632, 5
65607, 10
2823, 5
1512, 4
65582, 8

This is NOT a list of only trees with five taxa.

Alternatively, I have tried to download trees from the website (without using R), but it crashes every time. I am not able to download the trees I need (which is all trees with certain numbers of taxa). What can I do?

Kind regards,
MF

[hlapp]

@MareikeFischer I think you meant to report the problem you encountered to the repo for the R package.

The Treebase UI is in my understanding not actively maintained, though @rvosa might have more information on that.