Pan Arctic Species List (PASL) matching script

Abstract

<p>This script matches a provided species list with the Panarctic Species List (PASL) (Raynolds et al, 2013) to obtain the commonly accepted scientific names of the plants, including short names and full names.</p> <p>Inputs:</p> <ul> <li>Species list: CSV file containing a list of species names, as provided by the geobotanist;</li> <li>PASL: a text file with the Panarctic Species List names, including the short and full scientific names of the plants (with synonyms).</li> </ul> <p>Outputs:</p> <ul> <li>A new file with the matched species list, including the short and full scientific names of the plants as found in the PASL.</li> </ul> <p><span>References:</span></p> <ul> <li> <span>Raynolds, M.K., Breen, A.L., Walker, D.A., Elven, R., Belland, R., Konstantinova, N., Kristinsson, H. & Hennekens, S. (2013). The Pan-Arctic Species List (PASL). </span>Arctic Vegetation Archive (AVA) Workshop.</li> </ul><p><span>R software (R version 4.2.2)</span></p> <p><span>References:</span></p> <ul> <li> <span>R Core Team (2022). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. URL</span><a href="https://www.r-project.org/"> https://www.R-project.org/</a> </li> </ul><p>Funding provided by: Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship*<br>Crossref Funder Registry ID: <br>Award Number: 2019.0075</p><p>The script processes text to translate the names of a target dataset to the PASL format. It does this by removing special characters, replacing "sp" with "species," and adjusting for any 2-symbol differences between matching tables.</p&gt