syn2taxo: Synonym list to taxolist

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Synonym list to taxolist

Description

Converts a Synonym list with Accepted Names and Synonym columns to taxolist format

Usage

syn2taxo(synlist, canonical = "canonical", synonym = "synonym")

Arguments

synlist	Synonym list with Accepted name (canonical) and Synonym columns
canonical	Accepted names column name, Default: 'canonical'
synonym	Synonym column name , Default: 'synonym'

Details

Converts a synonyms list to taxolist format

Value

returns a data frame in taxolist format with all the names in same columns and accepted names linked to synonyms using id and accid fields

See Also

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

Examples

 synlist <- data.frame("id" = c(1,2,3),
                       "canonical" = c("Hypochlorosis ancharia",
                                       "Hypochlorosis ancharia",
                                       "Hypochlorosis ancharia"),
                       "synonym" = c( "Hypochlorosis tenebrosa",
                                      "Pseudonotis humboldti",
                                      "Myrina ancharia"),
                       "family" = c("Lycaenidae", "Lycaenidae", 
                                    "Lycaenidae"),
                       "source" = c("itis","wiki","wiki"),
                       stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
                       
 mytaxo <- syn2taxo(synlist)

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