get_synonyms: get synonyms

In taxotools: Taxonomic List Processing

get synonyms

Description

get all the synonyms from the master list for the names in the checklist

Usage

get_synonyms(master = NULL, checklist = NULL, commasep = FALSE, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

master	master list of names (taxolist)
checklist	list of names to be processed (taxolist)
commasep	return list should be comma separated list or each synonym on its own row. Default false
verbose	verbose output on the console

Value

Data frame with names from the checklist and their synonyms present in the master list

See Also

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

Examples

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

get_synonyms(master,checklist,commasep=FALSE)
get_synonyms(master,checklist,commasep=TRUE)

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