linktaxa-package: Link two related but not necessarily identical species lists

linktaxa-packageR Documentation

Link two related but not necessarily identical species lists

Description

A package to link two related but not necessarily identical scientific species lists using approximate string matching. The package further provides tools to accommodate various tasks on species names.

Details

Package: linktaxa
Type: Package
Version: 0.1-1
Date: 2013-12-06
License: GPL (>= 2)

The main function linktaxa takes two character vectors of scientific taxon names and performs an exhaustive search for possible analogs. judgePenalty computes penalty scores for retrieved matches. queuePenalty performs reordering based on these scores.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Roland Kaiser <kardinal.eros@gmail.com>

References

Jansen, F. & Dengler, J. (2010). Plant names in vegetation databases - a neglected source of bias. Journal of Vegetation Science, 21:1179–1186.

See Also

Taxonstand

Examples

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