Convenience Functions for Botanists to Create Specimens Indices

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Documentation for package ‘exsic’ version 1.1.1

• DESCRIPTION file.
• Package NEWS.

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exsic-package	Provides botanists with convenience functions to create exsiccatae indices
coll.cite	Constructs a final citation of collector names.
exsic	Creates three botanical indices (exsiccatae or index of specimens; numerical list of species; index to numbered collections).
format.ASPT	A formatting scheme following ASPT (American Society of Plant Taxonomists) conventions for an exsiccatae record.
format.NYBG	A formatting scheme following NYBG (New York Botanical Garden) conventions for an exsiccatae record.
format.PK	A formatting scheme following PK (Phytokeys) conventions for an exsiccatae record.
format.SBMG	A formatting scheme following SBMG (Systematic Botany Monographs) conventions for an exsiccatae record.
index.citations	Creates an index of specimen citations
index.collections	Creates the index of collectors and their specimes.
index.countries	Creates a simple index of countries.
index.species	Creates a simple index of species.
index.species.short	A condensed list of species (listed within a line).
is.exsic	Checks table format
is.format	Checks if the data frame conforms to the expectations to a formatting configuration data frame.
is.sortfilter	Checks if the data frame conforms to the expectations to sort and filter the exsic database.
potato	Wild potato specimen sample list
prepare.table	Prepare exsic table
read.exsic	Reads a table in .csv format.
section.exsic	Creates a section header
sort.specs	A sorting and filtering configuration data.frame
strip.final.dot	Strips a text of any final dots.
write.exsic	Writes the exsiccatae text