tax_lineage {rotl}

Lineage of a taxon

Description

Extract the lineage information (higher taxonomy) from an object returned by taxonomy_taxon_info.

Usage

tax_lineage(tax, ...)

## S3 method for class 'taxon_info'
tax_lineage(tax, ...)

Arguments

tax

an object created by taxonomy_taxon_info using the argument include_lineage=TRUE.

...

additional arguments (currently unused).

Details

The object passed to this function must have been created using the argument include_lineage=TRUE.

Value

A list with one slot per taxon that contains a data frame with 3 columns: the taxonomy rank, the name, and unique name for all taxa included in the lineage of the taxon up to the root of the tree.