Search an infraspecific name in a flora list (given a species name) — search_infraspecific

This function searches for a given infraspecific.name in florula.collection, constraining the search to a given species name (i.e a genus.name + epithet.name) and allowing the user to select which attributes to search in.

Usage

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

Arguments

infraspecific.name: A character with an infraspecific Latin name to search within a given species (genus + epithet).
genus.name: A character with the genus Latin name to which the search should be constrained.
epithet.name: A character with the specific epithet to which the search should be constrained.
attributes.to.search: A character vector with the attributes to search in (any of 'subspecies', 'variety' and 'form').
florula.collection: An ArangoCollection containing a flora list.

Value

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

Details

The given infraspecific.name is searched separately in each of the given attributes (one by one), for all ArangoDocument's that (directly or indirectly) point at the given species and the results are collected in a list.

Author

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