reptSplitCheck: Check for potential taxonomic splits in a query

In letsRept: An Interface to the Reptile Database

Check for potential taxonomic splits in a query

Description

Check for potential taxonomic splits in a query

Usage

reptSplitCheck(
  x,
  pubDate = NULL,
  includeAll = FALSE,
  verbose = FALSE,
  cores = 1,
  showProgress = TRUE,
  exact = FALSE
)

Arguments

x	A character vector of species names to check. Usually from a database.
pubDate	Integer. An year (e.g., 2019) used as a reference date from when to check potential taxonomic split. Either a single year applied to all queried species, or a vector of years with the same length as x, providing a reference year for each species individually.
includeAll	Logical; If TRUE, include all species described since pubDate regardless of if it is already included in the queried species list. Default is FALSE
verbose	Logical; If TRUE, prints progress messages. Default is TRUE.
cores	Integer. Number of CPU cores to use for parallel processing. Default is cores = 1.
showProgress	Logical. If TRUE, prints data sampling progress. Default is TRUE.
exact	Logical. Will search queried names for exact matches only (e.g., does not retrieve "Tantilla cf. melanocephala" when searching for "Tantilla melanocephala"). Default is FALSE.

Value

A data frame with the following columns:

• query: the original input names.

• RDB: the best-matching valid names according to The Reptile Database.

• status: a status label indicating the result of the match ("check_split", "up_to_date", "not_found", or "failed").

Examples

query <- c(
"Atractus dapsilis",
"Atractus trefauti",
"Atractus snethlageae",
"Tantilla melanocephala",
"Oxybelis aeneus",
"Oxybelis rutherfordi",
"Vieira-Alencar authoristicus",
"Oxybelis aeneus",
"Bothrops pauloensis")


result <- reptSplitCheck(x=query,
                        pubDate = 2019,
                        cores = 2,
                        showProgress = FALSE)

result <- reptSplitCheck(x=query,
                        pubDate = 2019,
                        cores = 2,
                        showProgress = FALSE,
                        includeAll = TRUE)

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