add_kingdoms {fossilbrush}

add_kingdoms

Description

Convenience function to add in a kingdom column to a PBDB dataset. This relies on the dataset having a column of phylum-level assignments for occurrences. The kingdom column is a useful addition for filtering very large taxonomically diverse datasets, and adds in an additional level of data which can inform taxonomic cleaning routines like those called by @seealso check_taxonomy

Usage

add_kingdoms(x, phylum = "phylum", insert.left = TRUE)

Arguments

x

A dataframe containing, minimally, phylum-level assignments of the data

phylum

A character of length 1 specifing the column in x with the phylum level assignments

insert.left

A convenience argument which will make sure that the kingdom column will be inserted in dataframe left immediately to the left of the phylum column

Value

The dataframe x, with the kingdom column inserted

Examples

# load dataset
data("brachios")
# add kingdoms to dataset
brachios <- add_kingdoms(brachios)