This function takes a list of taxa names, cleans them, retrieves their corresponding classification records from the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), and checks if they belong to the specified diatom class. The function only uses the first name (genus name) of each taxa for classification.
Usage
ifcb_is_diatom(
taxa_list,
diatom_class = "Bacillariophyceae",
max_retries = 3,
sleep_time = 10,
marine_only = FALSE,
fuzzy = TRUE,
verbose = TRUE
)Arguments
- taxa_list
A character vector containing the list of taxa names.
- diatom_class
A character string or vector specifying the class name(s) to be identified as diatoms, according to WoRMS. Default is "Bacillariophyceae".
- max_retries
An integer specifying the maximum number of attempts to retrieve WoRMS records in case of an error. Default is 3.
- sleep_time
A numeric value indicating the number of seconds to wait between retry attempts. Default is 10 seconds.
- marine_only
Logical. If TRUE, restricts the search to marine taxa only. Default is FALSE.
- fuzzy
A logical value indicating whether to search using a fuzzy search pattern. Default is TRUE.
- verbose
A logical indicating whether to print progress messages. Default is TRUE.
Value
A logical vector indicating whether each cleaned taxa name belongs to the specified diatom class.
Examples
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
taxa_list <- c("Nitzschia_sp", "Chaetoceros_sp", "Dinophysis_norvegica", "Thalassiosira_sp")
ifcb_is_diatom(taxa_list)
} # }