matching_ppendemic: Match Species Names to Endemic Plant List of Peru

In PaulESantos/ppendemic: A Glimpse at the Diversity of Peru's Endemic Plants

Match Species Names to Endemic Plant List of Peru

Description

This function matches given species names against the internal database of endemic plant species in Peru.

Usage

matching_ppendemic(splist)

Arguments

splist

A vector containing the species list.

Details

The function first attempts to directly match species names with exact matches in the database (genus and specific epithet, or genus, specific epithet, and infra species). If no exact match is found, the function performs a fuzzy match using the fuzzyjoin package with an optimal string alignment distance of one, as implemented in stringdist.

The maximum edit distance is intentionally set to one.

The function matching_ppendemic returns a tibble with new columns Matched.Genus, Matched.Species, and Matched.Infraspecies, containing the matched names or NA if no match was found.

Additionally, a logical column is added for each function called, allowing users to see which functions were applied to each name during the matching process. If a process column shows NA, the corresponding function was not called for that name because it was already matched by a preceding function.

Value

Returns a tibble with the matched names in Matched.Genus, Matched.Species for binomial names, and Matched.Infraspecies for valid infra species names.

PaulESantos/ppendemic documentation built on July 16, 2024, 12:32 p.m.