R: A High-Performance Local Taxonomic Database Interface

# A High-Performance Local Taxonomic Database Interface

## Documentation for package ‘taxadb’ version 0.2.1

- DESCRIPTION file
- User guides, package vignettes and other documentation
- Package NEWS
- Package README

## Help Pages

clean_names | Clean taxonomic names
common_contains | common name starts with
common_starts_with | common name starts with
filter_by | Creates a data frame with column name given by 'by', and values given by the vector 'x', and then uses this table to do a filtering join, joining on the 'by' column to return all rows matching the 'x' values (scientificNames, taxonIDs, etc).
filter_common | Look up taxonomic information by common name
filter_id | Return a taxonomic table matching the requested ids
filter_name | Look up taxonomic information by scientific name
filter_rank | Get all members (descendants) of a given rank level
fuzzy_filter | Match names that start or contain a specified text string
get_ids | get_ids
get_names | get_names
name_contains | return all taxa in which scientific name contains the text provided
name_starts_with | scientific name starts with
taxadb_dir | Show the taxadb directory
taxa_tbl | Return a reference to a given table in the taxadb database
td_connect | Connect to the taxadb database
td_create | create a local taxonomic database
td_disconnect | Disconnect from the taxadb database.
tl_import | Import taxonomic database tables