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Taxon database definition class

Source: R/taxon_db_def.R
taxon_db_def.Rd

Used to store information on taxonomic databases that is used to validate information in other classes.

Usage

taxon_db_def(
  name = character(),
  url = NA_character_,
  desc = NA_character_,
  id_regex = NA_character_,
  rank_levels = rep(list(NULL), length(name))
)

Arguments

name

Name of the database in lower case. Inputs will be transformed to a character vector.

url

URL of the database website. Inputs will be transformed to a character vector.

desc

Description of the database. Inputs will be transformed to a character vector.

id_regex

A regular expression for taxon IDs of the database. Inputs will be transformed to a character vector.

rank_levels

Valid taxonomic ranks for the database. Should be a list of numeric vectors named by taxonomic ranks.

Value

An S3 object of class taxa_taxon_db_def