toptenGen: Get top ten most species-rich genera

In deborazuanny/expowo: An R package for mining plant diversity and distribution data

Get top ten most species-rich genera

Description

It produces a CSV file listing the top ten most diverse genera of any target botanical family of flowering plants at Plants of the World Online (POWO).

Usage

toptenGen(family, uri,
          verbose = TRUE, save = TRUE, dir, filename)

Arguments

family	Either one family name or a vector of multiple families that are present in POWO.
uri	URI address for each family to be searched in POWO.
verbose	Logical, if FALSE, the search results will not be printed in the console in full.
save	Logical, if FALSE, the search results will not be saved.
dir	Pathway to the computer's directory, where the file will be saved provided that the argument save is set up in TRUE. The default is to create a directory named results_toptenGen and the searched results will be saved within a subfolder named by the current date.
filename	Name of the output file to be saved. Default is to create a file entitled output.

Value

Table in .csv format that is saved on disk.

Author(s)

Debora Zuanny & Domingos Cardoso

See Also

POWOcodes

Examples

## Not run: 
library(expowo)
library(taxize)

fam <- c("Araceae", "Lecythidaceae")
powocodes <- cbind(family = fam,
                   data.frame(taxize::get_pow(fam)))

toptenGen(powocodes$family, powocodes$uri,
          verbose = TRUE,
          save = TRUE,
          dir = "results_toptenGen/",
          filename = "Araceae_Lecythidaceae")

## Searching for the top ten most diverse genera
## in any or all flowering plant families, by using
## the URI addresses within the POWOcodes data file

data(POWOcodes)

toptenGen(POWOcodes$family, POWOcodes$uri,
        verbose = TRUE,
        save = TRUE,
        dir = "results_toptenGen/",
        filename = "toptendiverse_plant_genera")

## End(Not run)

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