taxlist: Handling taxonomic lists.

The class taxlist is defined in this package using the S4 language. The main task of taxlist objects is to keep the taxonomic coherence of information included in taxonomic lists and to implement functions (methods) for a proper data handling. Objects of class taxlist can be included in further objects, for instance in biodiversity records as done in the package vegtable.

Details

The class taxlist is defined in this package using the S4 language. The main task of taxlist objects is to keep the taxonomic coherence of information included in taxonomic lists and to implement functions (methods) for a proper data handling. Objects of class taxlist can be included in further objects, for instance in biodiversity records as done in the package vegtable.

For a more detailed description of this package, see Alvarez & Luebert (2018).

References

Alvarez M, Luebert F (2018). The taxlist package: managing plant taxonomic lists in R. Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e23635. doi:10.3897/bdj.6.e23635

See also

Useful links:

• https://cran.r-project.org/package=taxlist

• https://github.com/ropensci/taxlist

• https://docs.ropensci.org/taxlist/

• Report bugs at https://github.com/ropensci/taxlist/issues

Author

Miguel Alvarez kamapu78@gmail.com