occ.cleanup {paleoDiv} | R Documentation |
Clean up occurrence dataset by removing commonly used character combinations in the identified name that will result in different factor levels for the same taxon.
occ.cleanup(x, remove = NULL, return.df = FALSE)
x |
A occurrence data.frame or character vector containing the variable to clean up (defaults to x$tna) |
remove |
Which values to remove. If NULL, a default set of commonly occurring character combinations is used ("n. gen.", "n. sp.", "cf.","aff.", punctuation, as well as double, leading and ending spaces). If user-defined, remove needs to be formatted as a character vector with the values to be removed as names, i.e. in the format of c("remove_this" = "", "removethistoo"="") |
return.df |
A logical indicating whether to return the entire data.frame (if TRUE) or just the column of taxonomic names. |
A character vector containing the cleaned up taxonomic names or a dataframe with cleaned-up tna column (if return.df==TRUE).
data(archosauria)
occ.cleanup(archosauria$Stegosauria)->archosauria$Stegosauria