taxlist (version 0.1.7)

taxlist-class: Class taxlist

Description

Class for species (taxon) lists including synonyms, hierarchical ranks, parent-child relationships, taxon views and taxon traits.

Arguments

Slots

Objects of this class are composed of three slots, every one corresponding to a data frame:

taxonNames

Table of taxon usage names (accepted names and synonyms).

taxonRelations

Relations between concepts, accepted names, basionyms, parents and hierarchical level.

taxonTraits

Table of taxon traits.

taxonViews

References used to determine the respective concept circumscription.

An additional property of taxlist objects are the taxonomic ranks, which can be set and retrieved using the function levels.

References

Alvarez M, Luebert F (2018). The taxlist package: managing plant taxonomic lists in R. Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e23635. https://doi.org/10.3897/bdj.6.e23635

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
library(taxlist)

showClass("taxlist")

## Create an empty object
Splist <- new("taxlist")
# }

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