traitlink: Function to link character descriptions to a trait ontology
In celiason/phenotools: Tools for the analysis and assembly of phenomic data in R

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Function uses fuzzy text matching to output a list of potentially redundant characters in a 'nex' object, waits for user input to confirm, and then handles merging of characters and outputs a new 'nex' object

1	traitlink(tree, x)

`tree`	trait ontology (an 'igraph' object produced, e.g., by `read_ontology`)
`x`	nexus file

a list with character names (chars), distance matrix (dmat), trait ontology links (ont), and node depths for each character(nodedepth)

Chad M. Eliason

## Not run: 
x <- twig
ont <- read_ontology(file = system.file("extdata", "baumel_ontology.txt",
package = "phenotools"))
tl <- traitlink(tree=ont, x=x)
# first five characters, links to trait ontology:
tl$ont[1:5]

## End(Not run)