build_gen_syn: Build genus level synonyms

In taxotools: Taxonomic List Processing

Build genus level synonyms

Description

Build a genus level synonym list from master list.

Usage

build_gen_syn(dat)

Arguments

dat	master list

Details

This genus level synonym list is generated for passing on to get_accepted_names function as a parameter

Value

data frame with genus level synonyms with two columns viz. Valid_genus and Original_Genus

See Also

Other Name functions: cast_canonical(), cast_scientificname(), check_scientific(), expand_name(), get_accepted_names(), guess_taxo_rank(), list_higher_taxo(), melt_canonical(), melt_scientificname(), resolve_names(), taxo_fuzzy_match()

Examples

master <- data.frame("id" = c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7),
                    "canonical" = c("Hypochlorosis ancharia",
                                     "Hypochlorosis tenebrosa",
                                     "Pseudonotis humboldti",
                                     "Myrina ancharia ancharia",
                                     "Hypochlorosis ancharia tenebrosa",
                                     "Hypochlorosis ancharia obiana",
                                     "Hypochlorosis lorquinii"),
                     "family" = c("Lycaenidae", "Lycaenidae", "Lycaenidae",
                                  "Lycaenidae", "Lycaenidae", "Lycaenidae",
                                  "Lycaenidae"),
                     "accid" = c(0,1,1,0,0,0,0),
                     "source" = c("itis","itis","wiki","wiki","itis",
                                  "itis","itis"),
                     stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
 gen_syn <- build_gen_syn(master)

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