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vegdata (version 0.6-6)

tv.compRefl: Compare different taxonomical reference lists.

Description

The function checks for different taxon numbers and, or taxon names in two TURBOVEG reference lists.

Usage

tv.compRefl(refl1, refl2, tv_home, check.nr=FALSE, 
   simplify = TRUE, verbose=FALSE, Sink=TRUE, 
   filter.1, filter.2, new = FALSE, file="compRefl.txt", ...)

Arguments

refl1
First reference list to compare.
refl2
Second reference list to compare.
tv_home
TURBOVEG installation path. If not specified, guessed by code{tv.home}
check.nr
Check equality of species numbers.
simplify
normalize taxon names with function taxname.simplify
verbose
Print species names on screen.
Sink
Write text file with differences.
filter.1
Character vector of filter keywords for refl1 to omit taxa from the comparison.
filter.2
Character vector of filter keywords for refl2 to omit taxa from the comparison.
new
Write new combined TURBOVEG reference list.
file
Name of the sink file.
...
Additional arguments.

References

Jansen, F. and Dengler, J. (2010) Plant names in vegetation databases - a neglected source of bias. Journal of Vegetation Science, 21, 1179-1186.

See Also

tax