match_exact: Exact matcher

In ropenscilabs/splister: Match Species Lists Against Reference List

Description

Exact matcher

Usage

match_exact(x, ref = NULL, against = NULL)

## S3 method for class 'character'
match_exact(x, ref = NULL, against = NULL)

Arguments

x	Input species list, a character vector
ref	(character) Reference taxon data.frame, or file path
against	(character) What column to match against in data.frame. Ignored if a vector given

Examples

x <- c("Salmo eperlanus Linnaeus, 1758", 'Oncorhynchus clarkii', 'Salmo',
'Oncorhynchus clarkii', 'Salvelinus fontinalis', 'Salvelinus confluentus')
y <- system.file("examples", "worms_salmo.csv", package = "splister")
dat <- unique(read.csv(y, stringsAsFactors = FALSE))

# get exact matches
res <- match_exact(x, ref = dat, against = "scientificName")

# then move on to do fuzzy matching
match_fuzzy(x, dat, against = "scientificName")

ropenscilabs/splister documentation built on Sept. 22, 2020, 4:46 p.m.