suggest.name: Suggest a valid name from a misspelled one

In gustavobio/tpl: interacting with The Plant List

Description

This function tries to suggest a valid name according to The Plant List using a possibly incorrect one as a starting point.

Usage

suggest.name(taxon, max.distance = 0.75, return.na = TRUE,
  ignore.words = NULL)

Arguments

taxon	a character vector containing a single name
max.distance	a numeric value indicating how conservative the function should be when searching for suggestions. Values close to 1 are very conservative
return.na	a logical indicating whether to return a NA or the original input when no suggestion is found
ignore.words	NULL or a character vector with words to be ignored by the function. Useful if you are automatizing a workflow and wants the function to ignore words or phrases such as "not found", "dead", "undetermined", and so on

Value

A character vector or NA

Examples

## Not run: 
suggest.name("Cofea arabyca")
suggest.name("Myrcia bela")

## End(Not run)

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