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Check if species are endemic in the ppendemic database

Source: R/is_ppendemic.R
is_ppendemic.Rd

This function checks if a list of species names are endemic in the ppendemic database. The function allows fuzzy matching for species names with a maximum distance threshold to handle potential typos or variations in species names.

Usage

is_ppendemic(
  splist,
  max_dist = 2,
  save_ambiguous = FALSE,
  ambiguous_path = "ambiguous_genera.csv"
)

Arguments

splist

A character vector containing the list of species names to be checked for endemic in the ppendemic database.

max_dist

Maximum edit distance used in fuzzy matching steps. Defaults to 2.

save_ambiguous

Logical flag. If TRUE, ambiguous fuzzy genus matches are exported to disk.

ambiguous_path

File path used when save_ambiguous = TRUE. Defaults to "ambiguous_genera.csv".

Value

A character vector indicating if each species is endemic or not endemic.

Examples

# \donttest{
is_ppendemic(c("Aa aurantiaca", "Aa aurantiaaia", "Werneria nubigena"))
#> [1] "Endemic"     "Endemic"     "Not endemic"
# }