SoilTaxonomy (version 0.2.7)

FormativeElements: Identify formative elements in taxon names at Soil Order, Suborder, Great Group or Subgroup level

Description

Identify formative elements in taxon names at Soil Order, Suborder, Great Group or Subgroup level

Usage

FormativeElements(x, level = c("order", "suborder", "greatgroup", "subgroup"))
OrderFormativeElements(x)
SubOrderFormativeElements(x)
GreatGroupFormativeElements(x)
SubGroupFormativeElements(x)
get_ST_formative_elements(
  level = c("order", "suborder", "greatgroup", "subgroup")
)

Value

A list containing $defs: a data.frame containing taxonomic elements, derivations, connotations and links. And $char.index: a numeric denoting the position where the formative element occurs in the search text x

get_ST_formative_elements(): a data.frame containing descriptors of formative elements used at the specified level

Arguments

x

A character vector containing subgroup-level taxonomic names

level

one of c("order","suborder","greatgroup","subgroup")

Author

D.E. Beaudette, A.G. Brown

Examples

FormativeElements("acrudoxic plinthic kandiudults", level = "subgroup")
SubGroupFormativeElements("acrudoxic plinthic kandiudults")

FormativeElements("acrudoxic plinthic kandiudults", level = "greatgroup")
GreatGroupFormativeElements("acrudoxic plinthic kandiudults")

FormativeElements("acrudoxic plinthic kandiudults", level = "suborder")
SubOrderFormativeElements("acrudoxic plinthic kandiudults")

FormativeElements("acrudoxic plinthic kandiudults", level = "order")
OrderFormativeElements("acrudoxic plinthic kandiudults")