taxotools (version 0.0.79)

melt_scientificname: Melt scientific name into fields

Description

Try to parse scientific names into Genus, species, Subspecies, Author etc.

Usage

melt_scientificname(
  dat,
  sciname = "",
  genus = "genus",
  subgenus = "subgenus",
  species = "species",
  subspecies = "subspecies",
  author = "author",
  verbose = FALSE
)

Arguments

dat

data frame containing scientific names

sciname

column name for scientific names, Default: ''

genus

column name for genus, Default: 'genus'

subgenus

column name for subgenus, Default: 'subgenus'

species

column name for species, Default: 'species'

subspecies

column name for subspecies, Default: 'subspecies'

author

column name for author, Default: 'author'

verbose

verbose output, Default: FALSE

Value

data frame with additional columns for fields

Details

Helpful function to break down Scientific names into Genus, species, Subspecies, Author so that the names can be constructed into canonical names for matching

See Also

Other Name functions: build_gen_syn(), cast_canonical(), check_scientific(), expand_name(), get_accepted_names(), guess_taxo_rank(), list_higher_taxo(), melt_canonical()

Examples

# NOT RUN {
if(interactive()){
 melt_scientificname(mylist, sciname="Scientific", genus="genus",
  subgenus="subgenus", species="species",subspecies="subspecies",
  author="author")
 }
# }