Secondary function to transform data generated with powoSpecies

Produces a spreadsheet with extra data about the publication, adding the corrected year of publication and the counting of synonyms of each species. It is an optional function to be used after run expowo's powoSpecies and to use as input data in the expowo's accGraph.

Usage

get_year_pubs(inputdf = NULL,
              verbose = TRUE,
              save = FALSE,
              dir = "results_POWO_with_year_pubs",
              filename = "POWO_with_year_pubs")

Arguments

inputdf: A dataframe generated using powoSpecies function with the argument synonyms set as TRUE and containing the genus and species column and the associated information about the protologue of each species. The species name must be binomial, i.e. must contain both the genus name and specific epithet.
verbose: Logical, if FALSE, a message showing each step during the POWO search will not be printed in the console in full.
save: Logical, if TRUE, the transformed input POWO database will be saved on disk.
dir: Pathway to the computer's directory, where the file will be saved provided that the argument save is set up in TRUE. The default is to create a directory named results_POWO_with_year_pubs and the search results will be saved within a subfolder named after the current date.
filename: Name of the output file to be saved. The default is to create a file entitled POWO_with_year_pubs.

Value

Objects of class dataframe and saves the output on disk.

Author

Debora Zuanny & Domingos Cardoso

Examples

if (FALSE) {

library(expowo)

output <- powoSpecies(family = "Fabaceae",
                      genus = NULL,
                      synonyms = TRUE,
                      country = NULL,
                      save = FALSE,
                      dir = "Fabaceae_results_powoSpecies",
                      filename = "Fabaceae_spp")


output_year_pubs <- get_year_pubs(inputdf = output,
                                  verbose = TRUE,
                                  save = FALSE,
                                  dir = "results_POWO_with_year_pubs",
                                  filename = "POWO_with_year_pubs")
}