taxon_authority {taxa}

Taxon authority class

Description

Used to store information on taxon authorities, such as author names, date, and citation.

Usage

taxon_authority(
  author = character(),
  date = "",
  citation = "",
  .names = "",
  extract_date = TRUE
)

Arguments

author

Zero or more author names.

date

Zero or more dates.

citation

Zero or more literature citations.

.names

The names of the vector.

extract_date

If TRUE (the default), then if a date is detected in the author input and no date input is given, then the date is separated from the author input.

Value

An S3 object of class taxa_taxon_authority

See Also

Other classes: [.taxa_classification(), classification(), taxon(), taxon_db(), taxon_id(), taxon_rank()

Examples

# Making new objects
x <- taxon_authority(c('A', 'B', 'C'))
x <- taxon_authority(c('Cham. & Schldl.', 'L.'),
                     date = c('1827', '1753'))

# Manipulating objects
as.character(x)
x[2]
x[2] <- 'ABC'
names(x) <- c('a', 'b')
x['b'] <- 'David Bowie'
tax_author(x)[1] <- tolower(tax_author(x)[1])
tax_author(x)
tax_date(x) <- c('2000', '1234')
tax_date(x)
tax_cite(x)[2] <- c('Linnaeus, C. (1771). Mantissa plantarum altera generum.')
tax_cite(x)

# Using as columns in tables
tibble::tibble(x = x, y = 1:2)
data.frame(x = x, y = 1:2)

# Converting to tables
tibble::as_tibble(x)
as_data_frame(x)