Melt scientific name removes parenthesis from Authors

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Melt scientific name removes parenthesis from Authors #91

Open Jegelewicz opened 3 years ago

Jegelewicz commented 3 years ago

melt scientific name is GREAT! but when an author name contains parenthesis they are lost in the translation. So

scientificName = Polygenis platensis cisandinus (Jordan, 1939)

melts to genus	specificEpithet	infraspecificEpithet	scientificNameAuthorship
Polygenis	platensis	cisandinus	Jordan, 1939

instead of genus	specificEpithet	infraspecificEpithet	scientificNameAuthorship
Polygenis	platensis	cisandinus	(Jordan, 1939 )

Jegelewicz commented 3 years ago

Also, note that there is a space at the beginning of all scientificNameAuthorship terms.

vijaybarve commented 3 years ago

Space at the beginning of Author will be fixed in next github commit. Maintaining author () is going to be tricky. Will work on that soon. Thanks @Jegelewicz for the feedback

Jegelewicz commented 3 years ago

FWIW, I just put the stuff into excel and if the original sci name included parens, I added them to the new author. I didn't write R code, cause it was just too easy for me to go with what I knew and move on.....