spNmReduce: Abbreviates a Botanical or Zoological Latin Name into an...

spNmReduceR Documentation

Abbreviates a Botanical or Zoological Latin Name into an Eight-character from 'Gender epithet' to 'G. epithet'

Description

To abbreviate species name from 'Gender epithet' to 'G. epithet'. Useful in plots with species names.

Usage

spNmReduce(name, sep = " ")

Arguments

name

a factor coercible vector of species name in forms 'Gender epithet'.

sep

character string which separates Gender and epithet. Default is space " ".

Details

Returned reduced names are made unique.

Value

A factor vector of species reduced names in forms 'G. epithet'.

See Also

make.cepnames in vegan package.


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