Get unique lifeform across taxa, perhaps including further context

Source: R/make_lifeform.R

There are two tasks here:

make_lifeform(
  df,
  taxa_col = "taxa",
  lf_col = "lifeform",
  context = NULL,
  lulife
)

Arguments

df

Dataframe with taxa column.

taxa_col

Character. Name of taxa column.

lf_col

Character. Name of lifeform (id) column.

context

Charcter or NULL. Set of columns that define a context within which to generate lifeform.

lulife

Dataframe lookup for lifeform.

Value

Dataframe with columns taxa_col, visit col(s), lifeform

Details

  • find the most frequent lifeform assigned to a taxa (perhaps including other context)

  • ensure there are no duplicates across the relevant context