getTaxonAtLevel {SoilTaxonomy} | R Documentation |
Get the taxon name at the Soil Order, Suborder, Great Group or Subgroup level
Description
Get the taxon name at the Soil Order, Suborder, Great Group or Subgroup level
Usage
getTaxonAtLevel(x, level = "order", simplify = TRUE)
Arguments
x |
A character vector containing subgroup-level taxonomic names |
level |
one of |
simplify |
Return a vector when |
Value
A named character vector of taxa at specified level, where names are the internal Soil Taxonomy letter codes. When length(level) > 1
? a data.frame is returned with column names for each level
.
Examples
# default gets the soil order
getTaxonAtLevel(c("typic haplargids", "typic glacistels")) #, level = "order")
# specify alternate levels
getTaxonAtLevel("humic haploxerands", level = "greatgroup")
# can't get subgroup (child) from great group (parent)
getTaxonAtLevel("udifolists", level = "subgroup")
# but can do parents of children
getTaxonAtLevel("udifolists", level = "suborder")
# specify multiple levels (returns a list element for each level)
getTaxonAtLevel("hapludolls", c("order", "suborder", "greatgroup", "subgroup"))
[Package SoilTaxonomy version 0.2.4 Index]