README.md

In plantlist: Looking Up the Status of Plant Scientific Names based on The Plant List Database

Welcome to the Homepage of plantlist

plantlist is an R package for checking the status of a scientific name for higher plants. Its database is based on The Plant List Website (Ver. 1.1).

How to install?

library(devtools)
install_github("helixcn/plantlist")

If you haven't had devtools installed, please install it by typing

install.packages("devtools")

in R console.

How to use?

library(plantlist)

### Check the status of a scientific name (with or without authorship)

status("Hypoxis filifolia")

### Subspecies (with or without authorship)

status("Hypoxis kilimanjarica subsp. kilimanjarica")

### Variaty (with or without authorship)

status("Hypoxis erecta var. aestivalis")

### Form (with or without authorship)

status("Hypoxis hirsuta f. villosissima")

### Important Warning: Since 'f.' is also used in the authorship,
### please do not provide the author name for the species when
### it is a form. Eg.
### "Hypoxis hirsuta (L.) Coville f. vollosissima Fernald".
### The function parse_taxa() inside the status()
### function will not be able to parse the name correctly.
### Therefore a form should always be provided as:
### "Hypoxis hirsuta f. vollosissima Fernald"
### or "Hypoxis hirsuta f. vollosissima".

### Check the family/Order/family number for vascular plants
TPL("Hypoxis")
TPL("Hypoxis hirsuta")

### Create a Family/Genus/Species Table for Phylomatic Software

sp <- c( "Ranunculus japonicus", "Anemone udensis",
         "Ranunculus repens", "Ranunculus chinensis",
         "Solanum nigrum", "Punica sp." )
res <- TPL(sp)
taxa.table(res)

For more help, please look at the manual for each function.

Please feel free to send an email to the package maintainer Jinlong Zhang if you have any question or comments about this package.

plantlist documentation built on May 2, 2019, 4:45 p.m.