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Downloads synonym data from SMML Nomenclature DB

Source: R/synonyms_smml.R
synonyms_smml.Rd

Searches and downloads synonym data from SMML Nomenclature database

Usage

synonyms_smml(x, spec_type = c("plant", "fungus"), clean = TRUE,
  process = TRUE)

Arguments

x

a vector of class character containing fungal or plant species or genus names

spec_type

a character string specifying the type of x. Can be either "plant" or "fungus"

clean

logical, if TRUE a cleaning step is run of the resulting associations list

process

logical, if TRUE downloading and extraction process is displayed

Value

an object of class list containing synonyms for x

Author

Franz-Sebastian Krah

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
x <- "Solanum tuberosum"
synonyms_usda(x, spec_type = "plant", process = TRUE, clean = TRUE)
x <- c("Phytophthora infestans", "Polyporus badius")
synonyms_usda(x, spec_type = "fungus", process = TRUE, clean = TRUE)
} # }