vegtable (version 0.1.3)

merge_taxa: Merge concepts.

Description

Merge taxon concepts form into single ones.

Usage

# S4 method for vegtable,numeric,missing
merge_taxa(object, concepts, level, ...)
# S4 method for vegtable,missing,character
merge_taxa(object, concepts, level, ...)

Arguments

object

Object of class '>vegtable.

concepts

Numeric (integer) vector including taxon concepts to be merged.

level

Character value indicating the level to which the taxa have to be merged.

...

Further arguments passed to merge_taxa ('taxlist' method).

Value

An object of class '>vegtable.

Details

This method is applied to a function defined in the package taxlist and only modify the slot 'species' in the input 'object'.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
library(vegtable)
data(Kenya_veg)

## Merge Olea capensis into one
summary(subset(Kenya_veg@species, grepl("Olea capensis", TaxonName),
	slot="names"), "all")
Kenya_veg <- merge_taxa(Kenya_veg, c(52041,50432,50235))

## Check Olea capensis again
summary(subset(Kenya_veg@species, grepl("Olea capensis", TaxonName),
	slot="names"), "all")
# }