parents {taxlist}

Retrieve parents for specific concepts

Description

Retrieve IDs of parents for selected taxa in a taxonomic list.

Usage

parents(taxlist, level, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'taxlist,character'
parents(taxlist, level, concept, ...)

Arguments

taxlist

An object of class taxlist containing a taxonomic list.

level

A character value indicating the level at which the parents will be extracted (upwards in the taxonomic ranks).

...

Further arguments passed among methods.

concept

A vector containing concept IDs. The taxa for which the parents will be retrieved. If not provided, parents for every single taxon concept in 'taxlist' will be retrieved.

Examples

# Random selection of 5 taxa
IDs <- sample(Easplist@taxonRelations$TaxonConceptID, 5)

# Print names and names of parents
print_name(Easplist, IDs)
print_name(Easplist, parents(Easplist, "genus", IDs))
print_name(Easplist, parents(Easplist, "family", IDs))