Apply the vernacular-name registry to a taxon table — apply_taxon

Fills common_name on tbl for taxa that have none of their own. A dataset's own vocabulary always wins — it is the name the provider publishes, and overwriting it from WoRMS would rename their data under them. A taxon still awaiting a choice keeps NULL, which publishes no common name rather than a guessed one.

Usage

apply_taxon_common(con, cache_csv, tbl = "taxon", verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

con: DBI connection holding tbl.
cache_csv: path to the registry (see ensure_taxon_common()).
tbl: taxon table name (default "taxon").
verbose: report how many names were filled.

Value

number of rows filled, invisibly.

Details

Called by release_database.qmd on the merged taxon table, so the registry is applied once rather than in each of the 10 taxa-emitting ingests.