Get unique lifeform across taxa, perhaps including further context — make_lifeform • envClean

There are two tasks here:

make_lifeform(
  df,
  taxa_col = "taxa",
  lf_col = "lifeform",
  context = NULL,
  lulife
)

Arguments

df: Dataframe with taxa column.
taxa_col: Character. Name of taxa column.
lf_col: Character. Name of lifeform (id) column.
context: Charcter or NULL. Set of columns that define a context within which to generate lifeform.
lulife: Dataframe lookup for lifeform.

Value

Dataframe with columns taxa_col, visit col(s), lifeform

Details

find the most frequent lifeform assigned to a taxa (perhaps including other context)
ensure there are no duplicates across the relevant context