accessory_tax: Accessory, internal functions for taxonomic manipulation

In LimaRAF/plantR: Managing Species Records from Biological Collections

Accessory, internal functions for taxonomic manipulation

Description

These accessory functions work for editing the notation of scientific names and are mainly used within plantR function fixSpecies().

Usage

rmOpen(x)

rmInfra(x)

rmHyb(x)

addRank(x, rank = NULL)

Arguments

x	a vector with scientific names to be standardized.
rank	the expression or symbol to be added between names.

Details

The functions rmOpen(), rmInfra(), and rmHyb() require only a vector of scientific names, while the function addRank() also requires a rank to be provided.

The function rmOpen() removes the open nomenclature 'cf.' and 'aff.'.

The function rmInfra() removes the infra-specific ranks from varieties, sub-species and forms (e.g. 'var.', 'subsp.', 'f.')

The function rmHyb() removes the hybrid symbol 'x'.

The function addRank() does the opposite operation: it adds ranks, open nomenclature or hybrid symbols into scientific names. For this function if the number of ranks is equal to the number of names provided each rank is assigned to the corresponding name. If the number of ranks is different, the function silently uses the first rank for all names.

Author(s)

Sara Mortara & Renato A. F. de Lima

See Also

fixCase.

Examples

## Not run: 
rmOpen(c("Lindsaea cf. lancea", "Lindsaea aff. lancea"))

## End(Not run)

## Not run: 
rmInfra(c("Lindsaea lancea var. angulata",
          "Lindsaea lancea (L.) Bedd. var. angulata Rosenst.",
          "Lindsaea schomburgkii f. coriifolia (Lindm.) K.U. Kramer"))

## End(Not run)

## Not run: 
rmHyb(c("Blechnum ×antillanum", "Blechnum × antillanum",
       "Blechnum x antillanum", "Blechnum X antillanum"))

## End(Not run)

## Not run: 
addRank(c("Lindsaea lancea", "Lindsaea lancea angulata",
          "Lindsaea schomburgkii coriifolia", "Blechnum antillanum"),
          rank = c("cf.", "var.", "f.", "\u00d7"))

## End(Not run)

LimaRAF/plantR documentation built on Jan. 1, 2023, 10:18 a.m.