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defrostR (version 1.0.0)

A Tool for Standardizing Amphibian Taxonomy

Description

Provides a workflow for combining amphibian taxonomic data sets from different sources that use different taxonomic nomenclature, by suggesting the most current nomenclature used by the Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference, Frost (2017) for a given input query of species names. It can also be used to extract specific systematic information (e.g. species downstream of a given taxonomic level).

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install.packages('defrostR')

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1.0.0

License

GPL (>= 2.0)

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Maintainer

H. Liedtke

Last Published

August 9th, 2017

Functions in defrostR (1.0.0)

amphweb

AmphibiaWeb Taxonomy
aswStats

Get summary statistics of current taxonomy
defrost

Submit query to find updates in nomenclautre
getSynonyms

Compile dataframe of all synonyms listed on Amphibian Species of the World
asw_synonyms

Amphibian Species of the World synonyms
asw_taxonomy

Amphibian Species of the World Taxonomy
getTaxonomy

Compile amphibian taxonomy following the Amphibian Species of the World
synonymReport

Get summary report of "defrosted" query