count_taxa: Get the number of taxa under each taxonomic level for a...

In helixcn/plantlist: Looking Up the Status of Plant Scientific Names based on The Plant List Database, Searching the Chinese Names and Making checklists of plants

Get the number of taxa under each taxonomic level for a dataframe generated by the function CTPL

Description

Compute the number of species under each family, each genus, and each group. See the value secion.

Usage

count_taxa(checklist_dat)

Arguments

checklist_dat

A data.frame generated by CTPL or in the same format.

Details

Simple function summarizing the number of taxa under each taxonomic level.

Value

NO_OF_FAMILIES	Number of families in the data.frame
NO_OF_GENERA	Number of genera in the data.frame
NO_OF_SPECIES	Number of species in the data.frame
NO_OF_FAMILIES_BY_GROUP	Number of families under each group of higher plants, namely, Moss, Ferns and Lycophytes, Gymnosperms, Angiosperms
NO_OF_GENERA_BY_GROUP	Number of genera under each group, namely, Moss, Ferns and lycophytes, Gymnosperms, Angiosperms
NO_OF_SPECIES_BY_GROUP	Number of species under each group, namely, Moss, Ferns and lycophytes, Gymnosperms, Angiosperms
NO_OF_GENERA_BY_FAMILY	The name is self-explanatory
NO_OF_SPECIES_BY_FAMILY	The name is self-explanatory
NO_OF_SPECIES_BY_GENUS	The name is self-explanatory

Author(s)

Jinlong Zhang

References

None

See Also

make_checklist, CTPL

Examples

## Do not run
## See the vignette

helixcn/plantlist documentation built on Aug. 4, 2022, 1:22 p.m.