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pesi_ functions for Euro+Med #8

Closed Alectoria closed 9 years ago

Alectoria commented 9 years ago

I noticed that pesi_ functions return en empty result when supplied taxon names have spelling mistakes. For example, take the name "Pinus sylvvestris" (correctly spelt "Pinus sylvestris"):

> pesi_search("Pinus sylvvestris")
NULL

> pesi_guid("Pinus sylvvestris")
""

However, when I enter the name in the online version (http://ww2.bgbm.org/EuroPlusMed/query.asp), I am referred to the page with the correct name. So, the online version has a spell checker but pesi_ functions are excluded from it. Any particular reason for that?

I've used R version: 3.1.0 and taxizesoap: 0.1.0.99 for the query.

sckott commented 9 years ago

Thanks for the report! My guess is that they could very well have a spell checker for their web application that does not get used in the web service we use here, but I'll check...

sckott commented 9 years ago

If you look at the matchTaxon and matchTaxa methods here http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/soap.php# - they say they do fuzzy matching, but apparently not very well, or not at all maybe. If you have names that may be mis-spelled, you may want to use something like gnr_resolve() in the taxize pkg first

Alectoria commented 9 years ago

@sckott Thanks for looking into this!

sckott commented 9 years ago

@Alectoria I don't think there's anything I can do here, okay if I close?

Alectoria commented 9 years ago

@sckott sure, go ahead

sckott commented 9 years ago

Sorry I can't help more!