strip.infraspec: Truncation of Species Names

In heibl/megaptera: MEGAPhylogeny Techniques in R

Description

Delete infraspecific names and epithets form species names.

Usage

strip.infraspec(x)

Arguments

x	A character string giving taxon names of species rank and below.

Details

strip.infraspec tries to guess the separating character used; both " " and "_" are possible, but cannot be mixed as, e.g., in "Saxicola torquata_axillaris".

Value

A character string giving species names.

Examples

strip.infraspec(c("Vipera aspis",
                  "Vipera aspis aspis",
                  "Vipera aspis atra"))
     
## separating characters cannot be mixed!
spec <- c("Vipera aspis",
          "Vipera_aspis_aspis",
          "Vipera_aspis atra")                               
strip.infraspec(spec) 
strip.infraspec(gsub(" ", "_", spec))
strip.infraspec(gsub("_", " ", spec))                   

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