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taxlist (version 0.3.5)

Handling Taxonomic Lists

Description

Handling taxonomic lists through objects of class 'taxlist'. This package provides functions to import species lists from 'Turboveg' () and the possibility to create backups from resulting R-objects. Also quick displays are implemented as summary-methods.

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install.packages('taxlist')

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0.3.5

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GPL (>= 2)

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Repository

https://github.com/ropensci/taxlist

Homepage

https://cran.r-project.org/package=taxlist

Maintainer

Miguel Alvarez

Last Published

November 28th, 2025

Functions in taxlist (0.3.5)

clean_once_taxlist

One run clean function

Cleaning character strings.

overview_taxlist

Function producing the overview of whole object.

Function producing the overview of single taxon concepts.

Merge concepts or move names

merge_to_parent

Merge taxa to their respective parents

Coerce taxlist objects to data frames

Format usage names for publications

taxlist-package

taxlist: Handling Taxonomic Lists

Retrieve parents for specific concepts

Data manipulation.

Search matchings between character and taxlist objects

Sort taxa for further print

matched_names-class

Names matched with a reference taxonomic list

Insert additional rows to a data frame.

Set and retrieves hierarchical levels

Set taxonomic information as taxon traits

Inserting new rows and columns by merging two data frames

Re-index elements of taxlist objects

An S4 class to represent taxonomic lists.

Prune not used taxonomic ranks

Handle information on taxon usage names.

taxon_relations

Retrieve or replace slot taxonRelations in taxlist objects

Guess Turboveg 2 installation path.

Subset method for taxlist objects

Print overviews for taxlist Objects and their content

Import species lists from Turboveg databases

Count taxa within a taxlist object.

Delete orphaned records

Convert data frames and strings into taxlist objects

Make and load backups of R objects

Management of concept views in taxonomic lists.

Manipulation of taxon traits in taxlist objects.

Add new taxonomic concepts into taxlist objects

Deprecated-functions

Deprecated functions

Filling missed columns with NAs

Add a suffix when strings are identical

Distribute parental taxa across taxon concepts

Manage accepted names, synonyms and basionyms

Extract or Replace Parts of taxlist Objects

List of vascular plants from East Africa

Generate Identifiers

Print hierarchical structure in indented lists

Retrieve children or parents of taxon concepts

Dissect Scientific Names into their Elements

Coerce taxlist objects to lists.