Package: vegdata 1.9.18

vegdata: Access Vegetation Databases and Treat Taxonomy

Handling of vegetation data from different sources but especially Turboveg 2.0. Taxonomic harmonization (given appropriate taxonomic lists, e.g. GermanSL and EuroSL (Euro+Med extended) see <https://eurosl.infinitenature.org>).

Authors:Florian Jansen [aut, cre]

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# Install 'vegdata' in R:

install.packages('vegdata', repos = c('https://florian-jansen.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Datasets:

lc.0 - Layer combinations
lc.1 - Layer combinations
lc.all - Layer combinations
taxlevels - Taxonomic hierarchy levels

On CRAN:

This package does not link to any Github/Gitlab/R-forge repository. No issue tracker or development information is available.

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Last updated from:54f59fedb5. Checks:9 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Time
linux-devel-x86_64	OK	154
source / vignettes	OK	239
linux-release-x86_64	OK	174
macos-release-arm64	OK	170
macos-oldrel-arm64	OK	167
windows-devel	OK	92
windows-release	OK	101
windows-oldrel	OK	100
wasm-release	OK	123

Exports:child comb.species cwm db_path parent parse.taxa recoding.taxa syn syntab tax tax.refl taxname.abbr taxname.authors taxname.removeAuthors taxname.simplify taxref_download_eurosl taxref_download_germansl taxval TCS.replace tv.bib tv.coverperc tv.db tv.dict tv.home tv.obs tv.readXML TV.replace tv.site tv.traits tv.veg tv.write

Dependencies:bit bit64 blob cachem cli cpp11 curl data.table DBI digest fastmap forcats foreign glue hoardr lifecycle magrittr memoise pillar pkgconfig plyr R6 rappdirs Rcpp rlang RSQLite stringi stringr tibble utf8 vctrs xml2

An R package for vegetation data access, formatting and taxonomic unification

Rendered fromvegdata.Rnwusingknitr::knitr

Last update: 2026-07-07
Started: 2012-01-16

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Help page	Topics
Functions to access data from vegetation databases and evaluate taxon names	vegdata-package
Search taxonomic reference lists including concept synonomy and taxonomic hierarchy.	child
Combine species in vegetation matrix	comb.species
Indicate site conditions with community weighted mean values of traits or with mode of gradient classes (sum of species amplitudes).	cwm
database path	db_path
This is an example vegetation dataset to be included in package vegdata. Use tv.veg('elbaue') and tv.site('elbaue') to load.	elbaue
Layer combinations	lc.0
Layer combinations	lc.1
Layer combinations	lc.all
#' Parents of a taxon	parent
Parse taxon strings into genus part and epitheta	parse.taxa
Recode taxon names, lettercodes or ID's	recoding.taxa
Search synonyms of a taxon	syn
Syntaxonomic frequency tables	print.syntab syntab
Search taxonomic reference lists including concept synonomy and taxonomic hierarchy.	tax
Taxon reference list to be used	tax.refl
Taxonomic hierarchy levels	taxlevels
Standardisation of taxonomic names, especially taxon rank indicators and hybrid signs name taxname.abbr	taxname.abbr
Remove name authors from taxon names	taxname.authors taxname.removeAuthors
Simplify name parts for better string matching	taxname.simpl taxname.simplify
Download taxonomic databases	db_download taxref_download taxref_download_eurosl taxref_download_germansl
Handling of taxonomy in vegetation data.	taxval
Standardise taxon list field names to match the Taxonomic Concept Transfer Schema (TCS)	TCS.replace
Check bibliographic references from Turboveg codes	tv.bib
Cover code translation	tv.coverperc
Read list of available Turboveg2 databases in given Turboveg directory	tv.db tv.dict
Where is your Turboveg 2 installation path or the directory with Species, Data, and Popup you want to use?	tv.home
Show metainfo of vegetation database or ecodbase	tv.metadata
Dataframe of plot-species observations directly from Turboveg	tv.obs
Reads a Turboveg XML file	tv.readXML
Rename data.frame columns to match Turboveg 2 conventions	TV.replace
Load site data from Turboveg Database	tv.site
Load species traits from Turboveg reference list	tv.eco tv.traits
Tabulates vegetation tables from Turboveg database	tv.veg
Write species-plot observations and site information to Turboveg database.	tv.write
vegdata	vegdata

Package: vegdata 1.9.18

vegdata: Access Vegetation Databases and Treat Taxonomy

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