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defrostR (version 1.1.0)

An Amphibian Systematics Tool

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')

Monthly Downloads

13

Version

1.1.0

License

GPL (>= 2.0)

Issues

2

Pull Requests

0

Stars

6

Forks

2

Maintainer

H. Liedtke

Last Published

January 16th, 2018

Functions in defrostR (1.1.0)

getTaxonomy

Compile amphibian taxonomy following the Amphibian Species of the World
searchASW

Search the Amphibian Species of the World database (Species search)
synonymReport

Get summary report of "defrosted" query
asw_synonyms

Amphibian Species of the World synonyms
asw_taxonomy

Amphibian Species of the World Taxonomy
defrost

Submit query to find updates in nomenclautre
getSynonyms

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

AmphibiaWeb Taxonomy
aswStats

Get summary statistics of current taxonomy