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names_list

Get a random vector of species names.


Description

Family and order names come from the APG plant names list. Genus and species names come from Theplantlist.org.

Usage

names_list(rank = "genus", size = 10)

Arguments

rank

(character) Taxonomic rank, one of species, genus (default), family, order

size

(integer/numeric) Number of names to get. Maximum depends on the rank

Value

character vector of taxonomic names

Author(s)

Scott Chamberlain

Examples

names_list()
names_list('species')
names_list('genus')
names_list('family')
names_list('order')
names_list('order', 2)
names_list('order', 15)

# You can get a lot of genus or species names if you want
nrow(theplantlist)
names_list('genus', 500)

taxize

Taxonomic Information from Around the Web

v0.9.100
MIT + file LICENSE
Authors
Scott Chamberlain [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1444-9135>), Eduard Szoecs [aut], Zachary Foster [aut, cre], Zebulun Arendsee [aut], Carl Boettiger [ctb], Karthik Ram [ctb], Ignasi Bartomeus [ctb], John Baumgartner [ctb], James O'Donnell [ctb], Jari Oksanen [ctb], Bastian Greshake Tzovaras [ctb], Philippe Marchand [ctb], Vinh Tran [ctb], Maëlle Salmon [ctb], Gaopeng Li [ctb], Matthias Grenié [ctb], rOpenSci [fnd] (https://ropensci.org/)
Initial release

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