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WorldFlora (version 1.14-5)

Standardize Plant Names According to World Flora Online Taxonomic Backbone

Description

World Flora Online is an online flora of all known plants, available from . Methods are provided of matching a list of plant names (scientific names, taxonomic names, botanical names) against a static copy of the World Flora Online Taxonomic Backbone data that can be downloaded from the World Flora Online website. The World Flora Online Taxonomic Backbone is an updated version of The Plant List (), a working list of plant names that has become static since 2013.

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install.packages('WorldFlora')

Monthly Downloads

553

Version

1.14-5

License

GPL-3

Maintainer

Roeland Kindt

Last Published

September 10th, 2024

Functions in WorldFlora (1.14-5)

new.backbone

Develop a User-created Taxonomic Backbone data set
WFO.match.fuzzyjoin

Standardize plant names according to World Flora Online taxonomic backbone
WFO.prepare

Prepare a data set for analysis with WFO.match
vascular.families

Orders and Higher Level Classifications of Vascular Plants
WFO.remember

Remember the location of the Taxonomic Backbone data set
WFO.acceptable.match

Check for fuzzy matches that can be acceptable based on gender notations
WFO.match

Standardize plant names according to World Flora Online taxonomic backbone
WFO.example

World Flora Online (WFO) taxonomic backbone example data set