tpl.get: Get plant taxonomical and distribution data

In gustavobio/tpl: interacting with The Plant List

Description

This function collects taxonomic information from The Plant List. Synonyms and misspelled names are resolved automatically.

Usage

tpl.get(taxa, replace.synonyms = TRUE, suggest.names = TRUE,
  suggestion.distance = 0.9, drop = c("major.group", "genus.hybrid.marker",
  "species.hybrid.marker", "nomenclatural.status.from.original.data.source",
  "ipni.id", "source.id", "publication", "collation", "page", "date"),
  apg.families = TRUE, return.synonyms = FALSE, parse = FALSE)

Arguments

taxa	a character vector containing one or more taxa, without authors see noauthors if you have a list with authorities
replace.synonyms	should the function automatically replace synonyms?
suggest.names	should the function try to suggest corrections for spelling errors?
suggestion.distance	how conservative should the suggestion algorithm be?
drop	NULL or character vector with columns from original dataset to drop.
apg.families	Return APG families?
return.synonyms	Return a list of synonyms instead of the regular dataset?
parse	Parse names through the GBIF parser?

Value

a data frame or a list of data frames if return.synonyms = TRUE

Examples

## Not run: 
tpl.get("Myrcia lingua")

## End(Not run)

gustavobio/tpl documentation built on May 17, 2019, 9:29 a.m.