\item{by}{a variable to join by - could be a column name of \code{x} with values that exist in \code{bactlist$bactid} (like \code{by = "bacteria_id"}), or another column in \code{\link{bactlist}} (but then it should be named, like \code{by = c("my_genus_species" = "fullname")})}
\item{suffix}{if there are non-joined duplicate variables in \code{x} and \code{y}, these suffixes will be added to the output to disambiguate them. Should be a character vector of length 2.}
As opposed to the \code{\link[dplyr]{join}} functions of \code{dplyr}, characters vectors are supported and at default existing columns will get a suffix \code{"2"} and the newly joined columns will not get a suffix. See \code{\link[dplyr]{join}} for more information.