merge_taxa: Merge multiple concepts into one

In kamapu/vegtables2: Handling Vegetation Data Sets (Advanced Features)

Description

Different taxon concepts may be merged by taxonomic revisions.

All concepts indicated in argument concept_id will be set as synonyms of the first concept in the vector.

Take care of producing backups before starting the manipulation of databases.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'PostgreSQLConnection,numeric,missing'
merge_taxa(
  object,
  concepts,
  names2concepts,
  taxon_relations,
  taxon_traits,
  ...
)

Arguments

object	A database connection provided by dbConnect().
concepts	ID of taxon concepts to be merged.
taxon_relations, taxon_traits, names2concepts	Character vectors containing the name of the schema and for the respective information.
...	Further arguments passed among methods.

Author(s)

Miguel Alvarez [e-mail]

kamapu/vegtables2 documentation built on July 8, 2021, 7:57 a.m.