cast_cs_field: Build a character (comma) separated List within field

In taxotools: Taxonomic List Processing

Build a character (comma) separated List within field

Description

Builds a character (comma) separated list within a field given a data frame with primary field repeating values and secondary field with values to be character separated in the same field (secondary)

Usage

cast_cs_field(
  data,
  pri,
  sec,
  duplicate = FALSE,
  sepchar = ",",
  verbose = FALSE
)

Arguments

data	data frame containing primary and secondary data columns
pri	Primary field name (repeating values)
sec	Secondary field (values would be added to same record, comma separated)
duplicate	If true, duplicate entries are allowed in secondary field
sepchar	Character separator between the data items. Default is comma
verbose	verbose output, Default: FALSE

Value

a data frame with two fields Primary and secondary (comma separated list)

See Also

Other List functions: DwC2taxo(), compact_ids(), get_synonyms(), match_lists(), melt_cs_field(), merge_lists(), syn2taxo(), synonymize_subspecies(), taxo2DwC(), taxo2doc(), taxo2syn(), wiki2taxo()

Examples

SynList <- data.frame("canonical" = c("Abrothrix longipilis",
                                    "Abrothrix longipilis",
                                    "Abrothrix longipilis",
                                    "Abrothrix longipilis",
                                    "Abrothrix jelskii",
                                    "Abrothrix jelskii"),
                   "synonym" = c("Akodon longipilis",
                                 "Acodon hirtus",
                                 "Akodon longipilis apta",
                                 "Akodon longipilis castaneus",
                                 "Chroeomys jelskii",
                                 "Acodon jelskii pyrrhotis"),
                    stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
  cast_cs_field(SynList,"canonical","synonym")

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