wcvp_match_exact: Exact matching to WCVP.

In rWCVP: Generating Summaries, Reports and Plots from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Exact matching to WCVP.

Description

Exact matching of names to the WCVP, optionally using the author string to refine results.

Usage

wcvp_match_exact(names_df, wcvp_names, name_col, author_col = NULL, id_col)

Arguments

names_df	Data frame of names for matching.
wcvp_names	Data frame of taxonomic names from WCVP version 7 or later. If NULL (the default), names will be loaded from rWCVPdata::wcvp_names.
name_col	Character. The column in names_df that has the taxon name for matching.
author_col	the column in names_df that has the name authority, to aid matching. Set to NULL to match with no author string.
id_col	the column in names_df that has the observation id.

Value

Match results from WCVP bound to the original data from names_df.

See Also

Other name matching functions: wcvp_match_fuzzy(), wcvp_match_names()

Examples

 # these examples require 'rWCVPdata'
if(requireNamespace("rWCVPdata")){
wcvp_names <- rWCVPdata::wcvp_names

# including author string
wcvp_match_exact(redlist_example, wcvp_names, "scientificName",
  author_col = "authority",
  id_col = "assessmentId"
)

# without author string
wcvp_match_exact(redlist_example, wcvp_names, "scientificName", id_col = "assessmentId")
}

rWCVP documentation built on Feb. 16, 2023, 8:30 p.m.