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Add row(s) to a taxonomic database

Source: R/dct_add_row.R
dct_add_row.Rd

Add one or more rows to a taxonomic database in Darwin Core (DwC) format.

Usage

dct_add_row(
  tax_dat,
  taxonID = NULL,
  scientificName = NULL,
  taxonomicStatus = NULL,
  acceptedNameUsageID = NULL,
  acceptedNameUsage = NULL,
  new_dat = NULL,
  fill_taxon_id = dct_options()$fill_taxon_id,
  fill_usage_id = dct_options()$fill_usage_id,
  taxon_id_length = dct_options()$taxon_id_length,
  stamp_modified = dct_options()$stamp_modified,
  strict = dct_options()$strict,
  ...
)

Arguments

tax_dat

Dataframe; taxonomic database in DwC format.

taxonID

Character or numeric vector; values to add to taxonID column. Ignored if new_dat is not NULL.

scientificName

Character vector; values to add to scientificName column. Ignored if new_dat is not NULL.

taxonomicStatus

Character vector; values to add to taxonomicStatus column. Ignored if new_dat is not NULL.

acceptedNameUsageID

Character or numeric vector; values to add to acceptedNameUsageID column. Ignored if new_dat is not NULL.

acceptedNameUsage

Character vector; values to add to acceptedNameUsage column. Ignored if new_dat is not NULL.

new_dat

A dataframe including columns corresponding to one or more of the above arguments, except for tax_dat. Other DwC terms can also be included as additional columns. All rows in new_dat will be appended to the input data (tax_dat).

fill_taxon_id

Logical vector of length 1; if taxon_id is not provided, should values in the taxonID column be filled in by generating them automatically from the scientificName? If the taxonID column does not yet exist it will be created. Default TRUE.

fill_usage_id

Logical vector of length 1; if usage_id is not provided, should values in the acceptedNameUsageID column be filled in by matching acceptedNameUsage to scientificName? If the acceptedNameUsageID column does not yet exist it will be created. Default TRUE.

taxon_id_length

Numeric vector of length 1; how many characters should be included in automatically generated values of taxonID? Must be between 1 and 32, inclusive. Default 32.

stamp_modified

Logical vector of length 1; should the modified column of any newly created or modified row include a timestamp with the date and time of its creation/modification? If the modified column does not yet exist it will be created. Default TRUE.

strict

Logical vector of length 1; should taxonomic checks be run on the updated taxonomic database? Default FALSE.

...

Additional data to add, specified as sets of named character or numeric vectors; e.g., parentNameUsageID = "6SH4". The name of each must be a valid column name for data in DwC format. Ignored if new_dat is not NULL.

Value

Dataframe; taxonomic database in DwC format.

Details

fill_taxon_id and fill_usage_id only act on the newly added data (they do not fill columns in tax_dat).

If "taxonID" is not provided for the new row and fill_taxon_id is TRUE, a value for taxonID will be automatically generated from the md5 hash digest of the scientific name.

To modify settings used for validation if strict is TRUE, use dct_options().

Examples

tibble::tibble(
  taxonID = "123",
  scientificName = "Foogenus barspecies",
  acceptedNameUsageID = NA_character_,
  taxonomicStatus = "accepted"
) |>
  dct_add_row(
    scientificName = "Foogenus barspecies var. bla",
    parentNameUsageID = "123",
    nameAccordingTo = "me",
    strict = TRUE
  )
#> # A tibble: 2 × 7
#>   taxonID   scientificName acceptedNameUsageID taxonomicStatus parentNameUsageID
#>   <chr>     <chr>          <chr>               <chr>           <chr>            
#> 1 123       Foogenus bars… NA                  accepted        NA               
#> 2 cfedfbbb… Foogenus bars… NA                  NA              123              
#> # ℹ 2 more variables: nameAccordingTo <chr>, modified <chr>