bdc_scientificName_empty: Identify records with empty scientific names

In bdc: Biodiversity Data Cleaning

Identify records with empty scientific names

Description

Flags records with empty or not interpretable scientific names.

Usage

bdc_scientificName_empty(data, sci_names = "scientificName")

Arguments

data	data.frame. Containing the species scientific names.
sci_names	character string. The column name with the species scientific name. Default = "scientificName".

Details

This test identifies records missing scientific names (i.e., empty or not applicable NA names)

Value

A data.frame containing the column ".scientificName_empty". Compliant (TRUE) if 'sci_names' is not empty; otherwise "FALSE".

See Also

Other prefilter: bdc_basisOfRecords_notStandard(), bdc_coordinates_country_inconsistent(), bdc_coordinates_empty(), bdc_coordinates_from_locality(), bdc_coordinates_outOfRange(), bdc_coordinates_transposed(), bdc_country_standardized()

Examples

x <- data.frame(scientificName = c("Ocotea odorifera", NA, "Panthera onca", ""))
bdc_scientificName_empty(data = x, sci_names = "scientificName")

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