cull: Cull Bad Species Characters

In rBatt/trawlData: Read and Clean Data from Bottom Trawl Surveys

Description

Remove/ fix characters that are unlikely to be part of a species name

Usage

cull(x)

fixCase(x)

cullExSpace(x)

cullSp(x)

cullParen(x)

cullPost2(x)

Arguments

x	A character vector

Details

cull performs the following corrections, in this order: 1. remove extra spaces 2. change to sentence case 3. remove generic species indicators (spp or Sp., e.g.) 4. Remove everything in parentheses 5. Remove words after the first 2

Value

a character vector that has been altered by removing content unlikely to belong to a species name.

Functions

• fixCase: Fix case to sentence case

• cullExSpace: Remove extra spaces

• cullSp: Remove generic species indicator

• cullParen: Remove parentheses and contents

• cullPost2: Remove words after the last two

See Also

clean.tax clean.trimRow

rBatt/trawlData documentation built on May 26, 2019, 7:45 p.m.