taxize v0.9.97

NEW FEATURES

• Many of the functions in taxize share similar types of inputs (e.g., scientific names, or common names), but many different parameter names are used to refer to the same thing. We've standardized parameter names to make user understanding easier as the user uses different functions. TLDR: sci will always only accept a scientific name; com accdepts only a common name; id accepts a taxonomic identifier; sci_com accepts or scientific or common name; sci_id accepts a scientific name or taxonomic identifier. In most cases we have retained the old parameter name and you can still use it but you get a warning with information. In a future package version the replaced parameters will be removed completely. See #723 for tables covering the functions affected, their old and new parameter names (#723) (#829)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• upgraded APG datasets (apg_families and apg_order) to v14 (from July 2017) (#827)

BUG FIXES

• fix to worrms_downstream(): three rank names were not accounted for in our internal set of ranks (suptertribe, subterclass, parvorder) (#824)
• classification.gbifid was returning a duplicate last taxon, i.e., the last two rows in the output data.frame were the same. fixed. (#825)
• fixed issue in lowest_common() due to problem in classification.uid() when a taxon UID was merged into another taxon (#828)