Extract species number of any plant family

Produces a CSV file listing the number of species and genera within the target botanical families of vascular plants available at Plants of the World Online (POWO).

Usage

powoFam(family,
        verbose = TRUE,
        save = FALSE,
        dir = "results_powoFam",
        filename = "output")

Arguments

family: Either one family name or a vector of multiple families that is present in POWO.
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 search results 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_powoFam and the searched 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 output.

Value

A table with the following fields: family, genus_number (counting of genera within the specified plant family), species_number (countig of species within each genus), kew_id (the family code used in Kew's database), powo_uri (the URI to access the family in POWO).

Author

Debora Zuanny & Domingos Cardoso

Examples

if (FALSE) {
library(expowo)

powoFam(family = "Lecythidaceae",
        save = FALSE,
        dir = "results_powoFam",
        filename = "Lecythidaceae_spp_number")
}