read.neurons.catmaid could add option for annotation or neuron name query

[jefferis]

note that by chance nat::read.neurons has a neuronnames argument

[jefferis]

perhaps anything that expects one or more skids (as first input), could process the input with a function like

catmaid_skeleton_ids<-function(x, several.ok=TRUE) {
  if(is.factor(x)) {
   x=as.character(x)
  }
  if(is.character(x)) {
    # check if these look like skids, convert to int
   skids = as.integer(skids)
    # ... otherwise find skids with a query (by name or annotation?)
    "name:",     "annotation:" 
    skids = df$skid
  } else 
  # check that skids several.ok is matched
}

[jefferis]

could also accept input like c(name='a', annot='b', annot='c')

[jefferis]

closed by 8ba6506 and merged in 08c1a6e.