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Search an infrageneric name in a flora list (given a genus name)

Source: R/search_infrageneric_byname.R
search_infrageneric_byname.Rd

This function searches for a given infrageneric.name in florula.collection, constraining the search to a given genus.name and allowing the user to select which attributes to search in.

Usage

search_infrageneric_byname(
  infrageneric.name,
  genus.name,
  attributes.to.search = c("epithet", "subspecies", "variety", "form"),
  florula.collection
)

Arguments

infrageneric.name

A character with an infrageneric Latin name to search within a given genus.

genus.name

A character with the genus Latin name to which the search should be constrained.

attributes.to.search

A character vector with the attributes to search in (any of 'epithet', 'subspecies', 'variety' and 'form').

florula.collection

An ArangoCollection containing a flora list.

Value

A list with the ArangoDocuments in the florula.collection from which infrageneric Latin names match the given infrageneric.name in the attributes.to.search. The function returns NULL if no match is found.

Details

The given infrageneric.name is searched separately in each of the given attributes (one by one), for all ArangoDocuments that (directly or indirectly) point at the given genus.name and the results are collected in a list.

Author

Tiago Monteiro-Henriques. E-mail: tmh.dev@icloud.com.