Check for potential taxonomic splits in a query

reptSplitCheck(
  x,
  pubDate = NULL,
  includeAll = FALSE,
  verbose = TRUE,
  cores = 1,
  showProgress = TRUE,
  exact = FALSE
)

Arguments

x: A character vector of species names to check. Usually from a database.
pubDate: Integer. An year (e.g., 2019) used as a reference date from when to check potential taxonomic split
includeAll: Logical; If TRUE, include all species described since pubDate regardless of if it is already included in the queried species list. Default is FALSE
verbose: Logical; If TRUE, prints progress messages. Default is TRUE.
cores: Integer. Number of CPU cores to use for parallel processing. Default is cores = 1.
showProgress: Logical. If TRUE, prints data sampling progress. Default is TRUE.
exact: Logical. Will search queried names for exact matches only (e.g., does not retrieve "Tantilla cf. melanocephala" when searching for "Tantilla melanocephala"). Default is FALSE.

Value

A data frame with the following columns:

query: the original input names.
RDB: the best-matching valid names according to The Reptile Database.
status: a status label indicating the result of the match ("check_split", "up_to_date", "not_found", or "failed").

Examples

query <- c(
"Atractus dapsilis",
"Atractus trefauti",
"Atractus snethlageae",
"Tantilla melanocephala",
"Oxybelis aeneus",
"Oxybelis rutherfordi",
"Vieira-Alencar authoristicus",
"Oxybelis aeneus",
"Bothrops pauloensis")

# \donttest{
result <- reptSplitCheck(x=query,
                        pubDate = 2019,
                        cores = 2,
                        showProgress = FALSE)

result <- reptSplitCheck(x=query,
                        pubDate = 2019,
                        cores = 2,
                        showProgress = FALSE,
                        includeAll = TRUE)
# }