add.gnsp.clmn {primate}

Add a genus species column

Description

Adds a genus_species column to the specified dataframe

Usage

add.gnsp.clmn(df,gn="Genus",sp="Species",rownames=FALSE,new.col=TRUE, gnsp.col = "gn_sp")

Arguments

df

input data.frame

gn

column name for genus

sp

column name for species

rownames

use the new gn_sp column to assign data.frame rownames

new.col

TRUE if gn_sp column is to be retained, FALSE if it is to be removed

gnsp.col

the name of the new column to add, by default is "gn_sp"

Value

modified data.frame (with genus species info concatenated and added)

Examples

primates.tab <- AWP.read.pkg.tab(tab.nm='dbo_tblGrovesMonkeys', id.clmn='MonkeyNumberGroves')
primates.tab <- add.gnsp.clmn(primates.tab,gn="Genus",sp="Species",rownames=FALSE,new.col=TRUE)