merge.bold: A function to merge two dataframes with data obtained from...

In nishanmudalige/BOLD.R: A package to interface with the Barcode of Life Database through R

A function to merge two dataframes with data obtained from BOLD.

Description

A function which merges two data frames which contain data obtained from BOLD. Merging data follows a hierarchy for overwriting data. Data obtained from the private API has higher priority than the same data obtained from the public API and newer data has higher priority over older data.

Usage

merge.bold(df.x, df.y)

Arguments

df.x	A dataframe with data obtaiend from BOLD.
df.y	A dataframe with data obtaiend from BOLD.

Value

A dataframe with merged data.

Author(s)

Nishan Mudalige

Examples

## token <- login.bold("username")

## example.df1 <- get.public(container="CCANN")
## example.df2 <- get.private("CCANN", token)
## example.df3 <- get.public(container="ACAGA")
## example.df4 <- get.private("ACAGA", token)
## example.df5 <- get.public(container="DS-ACGAG1")
## example.df6 <- get.private("DS-ACGAG1", token)
## example.df7 <- get.public(taxon="Reptilia")

## example.df.A <- merge.bold(## example.df1, ## example.df1)
## example.df.A

## example.df.B <- merge.bold(## example.df1, ## example.df2)
## example.df.B

## example.df.C <- merge.bold(## example.df1, ## example.df3)
## example.df.C

## example.df.D <- merge.bold(## example.df4, ## example.df5)
## example.df.D

## example.df.E <- merge.bold(## example.df6, ## example.df7)
## example.df.E

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