Import species lists from Turboveg databases

Importing species lists from Turboveg 2 databases into a taxlist object.

Internally the funcions foreign::read.dbf() and df2taxlist() are called.

Usage

tv2taxlist(taxlist, tv_home = tv.home(), ...)

Arguments

taxlist

Character value indicating the name of a species list in Turboveg.

tv_home

Character value indicating the path to the main Turboveg folder. By default the function vegdata::tv.home() is called.

...

Further arguments passed to df2taxlist().

Value

A taxlist object.

See also

df2taxlist()

Author

Miguel Alvarez kamapu78@gmail.com

Examples

## Cyperus data set installed as Turboveg species list
Cyperus <- tv2taxlist(taxlist = "cyperus",
  tv_home = file.path(path.package("taxlist"), "tv_data"))
Cyperus
#> object size: 44.6 Kb 
#> validation of 'taxlist' object: TRUE 
#> 
#> number of taxon usage names: 95 
#> number of taxon concepts: 42 
#> trait entries: 42 
#> number of trait variables: 2 
#> taxon views: 0 
#>