Translate information in Brazilian Fauna database — translate

This function translates information in the "lifeForm", "origin", "habitat", "taxonRank", and "taxonomicStatus" columns between Portuguese and English.

translate_faunabr(data, map_list = NULL, to = "en")

Arguments

data: (data.frame) the data.frame imported with the load_faunabr function.
map_list: (list) A list of data.frames used for translation. The default is NULL, which means it uses faunabr::map_translation. If not NULL, its structure (list names and data.frame column names) must be identical to faunabr::map_translation.
to: (character) The target language for translation. Available options are "en" to translate from Portuguese to English, and "pt_br" to translate from English to Portuguese. The default is "en".

Value

A data.frame with the values in the "lifeForm", "origin", "habitat", "taxonRank", and "taxonomicStatus" columns translated.

Examples

data("fauna_data") #Load data example (in English)
#Translate to Portuguese
fauna_portugues <- translate_faunabr(data = fauna_data, to = "pt_br")
# See attributes of lifeForm in Portuguese
fauna_attributes(fauna_portugues, attribute = "lifeForm")
#> $lifeForm
#>                lifeForm
#> 1              colonial
#> 2              comensal
#> 3          ectoparasito
#> 4             herbivoro
#> 5           polinizador
#> 6              predador
#> 7                sessil
#> 8 vida_livre_individual
#>