This function helps to import to R environment, the PGR data
downloaded from genesys database https://www.genesys-pgr.org/ as a
Darwin Core - germplasm (DwC-germplasm) zip archive. The different csv files
in the archive are merged as a flat file into a single data.frame
.
All the space characters can be removed from the fields corresponding to
accession names such as acceNumb, collNumb, ACCENAME, COLLNUMB, DONORNUMB and
OTHERNUMB using the argument scrub.names.space
to facilitate creation
of KWIC index with KWIC
function and subsequent
matching operations to identify probable duplicates with
ProbDup
function.
The argument readme
can be used to print the readme file in the
archive to console, if required.