DrawDeterm: Attribute the most likely full species name

In EcoFoG/vernabota: Association between vernacular and botanical names for Guyafor data

Attribute the most likely full species name

Description

This function attributes the full species name corresponding to the highest value of alpha to a given tree.

Usage

DrawDeterm(AlphaV, levelAsso, VernName2Sim)

Arguments

AlphaV	data.table with the botanical information in the first 4 columns and one column for the vernacular name of interested, created in the function DrawBota
levelAsso	Level of association depending on the available information ("AssoByGenus", "AssoByFam" or "AssoByVern")
VernName2Sim	The vernacular name of the tree for which we want to get a full botanical name (character)

Details

This function performs the following steps:

• Get the species for which the value of alpha is the highest

• if there are no tie, return the value of this species and the associated correction code

• if there is a tie, draw a species randomly within these species

Value

This function returns a list with two elements: the first one is the associated botanical name and the second one the method of association (AssoByGenus, AssoByGenusT, AssoByFam, AssoByFamT, AssoByVern or AssoByVernT).

EcoFoG/vernabota documentation built on Feb. 15, 2023, 6:40 p.m.