is: Test taxon string

In kardinal-eros/linktaxa: Link two related but not necessarily identical species lists

Test taxon string

Description

Functions to test character strings for belonging to specific cases used in scientific binomials, including intra specific taxa, determination ambiguities and depth.

Usage

isWhat(x)
isResolved(x)
isSensuLato(x)
isSensuStricto(x)
isSensuStrictoSubspecies(x)
isSubspecies(x)
isVariety(x)
isSensuStrictoVariety(x)
isHybrid(x)
isAffinis(x)
isAggregate(x)
isGenus(x)

Arguments

x	a character string, or a named list of character string, in which case names(x) are used

Details

isWhat

applies all the below listed (sub-)functions in a single step.

isResolved

applies isWhat but returns only elements where isResolved is TRUE.

isSensuLato

test for sensu lato (s.lat.) taxon.

isSensuStricto

test for sensu strico (s.str.) taxon (nominotypical form).

isSensuStrictoSubspecies

test subspecies epithet if it is the nominotypical form.

isSubspecies

test for subspecies.

isVariety

test for variety.

isSensuVariety

test variety epithet if it is the nominotypical form.

isHybrid

test for Hybrid combination.

isAffinis

test for being ambiguously identified.

isAggregate

test for species aggregate.

isGenus

test for determination only at genus level (Genus sp.).

Calling functions without argument returns the strings searched by each function.

Value

logical.

Author(s)

Roland Kaiser

See Also

stripAll

Examples

x <- c(
    "Thalictrum simplex s.lat.",
    "Thalictrum simplex s.str.",
    "Thalictrum simplex ssp. simplex",
    "Thalictrum simplex ssp. galioides",
    "Quercus pubescens ssp. pubescens",
    "Abietinella abietina var. abietina",
    "Mentha \u00D7 dumetorum", # MULTIPLICATION SIGN (U+00D7) \u00D7
    "Mentha x dumetorum", # standard x gylph as multiplication sign
    "Mentha cf. arvensis",
    "Achillea millefolium agg.",
    "Bellis perennis")

isWhat(taxa)

isResolved(taxa)

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