Generate a Short Name from a Scientific Name

From a full scientific name, this function creates a standard abbreviation by taking the first three letters of each word, in lowercase, and joining them with a period.

Usage

shrt_name(scientific_name)

Arguments

scientific_name

A character string or vector of character strings with the scientific names.

Value

A character string or vector of character strings with the abbreviations.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
shrt_name("Diplodus sargus")
shrt_name("Diplodus sargus sargus")
shrt_name(c("Diplodus cervinus", "Diplodus vulgaris","Diplodus sargus"))
} # }