CTPL2: Adding taxonomic and conservation information based on...

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

Description

This function adds the following columnes SPECIES, SPECIES_FULL, GENUS, GENUS_CN, FAMILY_APGIII, FAMILY_CN, GROUP, IUCN_CHINA, ENDEMIC_TO_CHINA, PROVINTIAL_DISTRIBUTION, ALTITUDE to the supplied dataframe based on the Chinese Name of plants in the first column.

Usage

CTPL2(infile = NULL, outfile = "result_CTPL2.xlsx")

Arguments

infile	Name of the xlsx file containing the Chinese names of plants. It must use the first row as column names and the Chinese Names must be in the First Column.
outfile	Name of the xlsx file.

Details

SPECIES: scientific name without authors

SPECIES_FULL:scientific name with authors

GENUS:genus

GENUS_CN: genus in Chinese

FAMILY_APGIII: genus in APGIII

FAMILY_CN: Chinese name for the family

GROUP: major group of plants

IUCN_CHINA: the IUCN conservation status of this species

ENDEMIC_TO_CHINA: if the species is endemic to China

PROVINTIAL_DISTRIBUTION: the provincial distribution

ALTITUDE: altitudinal range

Value

A dataframe with taxonomic information for each species added.

Author(s)

Jinlong Zhang [e-mail]

References

Various sources. Detailed information for the master file is available at https://github.com/helixcn/plantlist_data

Examples

# Not run
# see the vignettes

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