Adjust scientific names

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Adjust scientific names #2

Open mhpob opened 3 years ago

mhpob commented 3 years ago

A few scientific names got left behind in #1:

"fundulus heterclitus" to "fundulus heteroclitus"
"hypsoblenniusÂ hentzÂ " (weird characters...) to "hypsoblennius hentz"
"pogonias chromis" to "pogonias cromis"
"striped bass" to "morone saxatilis"
"sygnathus fuscus" to "syngnathus fuscus"

And possible to figure out which species the blanks (lengths$scientific == "") belong to?

flyfrey commented 3 years ago

Gotcha, good catch. Been fiddling with a better approach to editing names.

mhpob commented 3 years ago

They're tough to sort out in any type of efficient way. A nested ifelse() could help:

lengths[, lengths := ifelse(lengths == 'fundulus heterclitus', 'fundulus heteroclitus',
                                          ifelse(lengths == 'hypsoblenniusÂ hentzÂ ', 'hypsoblennius hentz', lengths))]

dplyr::case_when is probably the easiest, though. data.table::fcase requires you to list all of the different options. case_when doesn't.