process_species_names: Process and fix species names

In arete: Automated REtrieval from TExt

Process and fix species names

Description

This function standardizes species names and fixes a number of common typos and mistakes that commonly occur due to OCR.

Usage

process_species_names(species, processing = "all", enforce = FALSE)

Arguments

species	character. String with the name of the species to be processed.
processing	character. One of "trim", "sp nov", "hyphen broken", "abbreviate", "spacing" and "all". By default set to "all", performing every edit.
enforce	boolean. Remove non-conforming entries before returning.

Value

character. A string with the standardized species name.

Examples

process_species_names("macro - thele calpeiana sp. nov.")

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