cast_canonical: Construct canonical names

In taxotools: Taxonomic List Processing

Construct canonical names

Description

Construct canonical names using Genus, Species and Subspecies fields. At times due to spaces or NAs in the data fields, it makes it tricky to generate canonical names.

Usage

cast_canonical(
  dat,
  canonical = "canonical",
  genus = "",
  species = "",
  subspecies = "",
  verbose = FALSE
)

Arguments

dat	data frame containing taxonomic list
canonical	field name for canonical names. Default 'canonical'
genus	field name for Genus field
species	field name for Species field
subspecies	field name for Subspecies field
verbose	verbose output, Default: FALSE

Value

a data frame containing Canonical names field added or repopulated using filed names for Genus, Species and Subspecies specified in parameters

See Also

Other Name functions: build_gen_syn(), 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

mylist <- data.frame("genus" = c("Acodon", "Akodon", "Abrothrix", "Abeomelomys"),
                     "species" = c("jelskii","longipilis","longipilis", "sevia"),
                     "subspecies" = c("pyrrhotis","castaneus","", NA))
cast_canonical(mylist,"canonical","genus","species","subspecies")

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