taxonRectification: Taxon Rectification

In hannahlowens/BridgeTree: Tools for Building and Managing Data for Comparative Phylogenetics of Ecological Niches

Description

An internal helper function that takes an input taxonomic name, checks against taxonomic database, returns vector for use in database queries, as well as warnings if the name is invalid.

Usage

taxonRectification(taxName = NULL, datasources = NULL)

Arguments

taxName	A string that, ideally, is a taxonomic name
datasources	A vector of taxonomic datasources implemented in gnr_resolve. See http://gni.globalnames.org/ for more information.

Value

A string with the closeset match according to gnr_resolve, and a list of taxonomic datasources that contain the matching name.

Examples

#Inputting a taxonomic name and specifying what taxonomic sources you want to search
studyTaxonList(x = "Buteo buteo hartedi", datasources = c('NCBI', 'EOL'));

hannahlowens/BridgeTree documentation built on May 3, 2019, 4:33 p.m.