melt_canonical: Deconstruct canonical names

In taxotools: Taxonomic List Processing

Deconstruct canonical names

Description

Deconstruct canonical names into Genus, Species and Subspecies fields

Usage

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

Arguments

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

Value

a data frame containing Genus, Species and Subspecies fields added or repopulated using data in canonical name field. If unable to parse the name Genus, Species and Subspecies fields will have NA.

See Also

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

Examples

mylist <- data.frame("canonical" = c("Abrothrix longipilis",
                                    "Acodon hirtus",
                                    "Akodon longipilis apta",
                                    "AKODON LONGIPILIS CASTANEUS",
                                    "Chroeomys jelskii",
                                    "Acodon jelskii pyrrhotis"),
                    stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
melt_canonical(mylist,"canonical","genus","species","subspecies")

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