taxize (version 0.2.0)

comm2sci: Get scientific names from common names.

Description

Get scientific names from common names.

Usage

comm2sci(commnames, db = "eol", itisby = "search", simplify = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

commnames

One or more common names or partial names.

db

Data source, one of "eol" (default), "itis", "tropicos" or "ncbi".

itisby

Search for common names across entire names (search, default), at beginning of names (begin), or at end of names (end).

simplify

(logical) If TRUE, simplify output to a vector of names. If FALSE, return variable formats from different sources, usually a data.frame.

...

Further arguments passed on to internal methods.

Value

• A vector of names.

See Also

searchbycommonname, searchbycommonnamebeginswith, searchbycommonnameendswith, eol_search, tp_search

sci2comm

Examples

comm2sci(commnames='black bear')
comm2sci(commnames='black bear', db='itis')
comm2sci(commnames='annual blue grass', db='tropicos')
comm2sci(commnames=c('annual blue grass','tree of heaven'), db='tropicos')
comm2sci(commnames=c('black bear', 'roe deer'))

# Output easily converts to a data.frame with \code{\link[plyr]{ldply}}
library(plyr)
ldply(comm2sci(commnames=c('annual blue grass','tree of heaven'), db='tropicos'))