Get the full lineage of a taxon

Get the full lineage of a taxon

lineage(taxon_ids, taxo, rooted = FALSE)

Arguments

taxon_ids	internal, numeric ids of the taxa.
taxo	a taxonomy data.frame, typically from extract_taxo().
rooted	when TRUE, add a root (#) to the lineage path.

Value

A vector of strings containing the lineage for each element of taxon_ids.

See also

Other taxonomy-related functions: ancestors(), as.taxo(), children(), descendants(), extract_taxo(), is_leaf(), parent(), taxo_id(), taxo_name()

Examples

print(as.Node(taxo), "id")
#>             levelName id
#> 1 #                   NA
#> 2  °--living           1
#> 3      ¦--fish         2
#> 4      ¦   °--egg      4
#> 5      °--mollusc      3
#> 6          ¦--snail    5
#> 7          ¦   °--egg  7
#> 8          °--squid    6
lineage(6, taxo)
#> [1] "living/mollusc/squid"
lineage(6, taxo, rooted=TRUE)
#> [1] "/#/living/mollusc/squid"
lineage(c(6, 7), taxo)
#> [1] "living/mollusc/squid"     "living/mollusc/snail/egg"
lineage(NA, taxo)
#> [1] NA
lineage(c(6, NA), taxo)
#> [1] "living/mollusc/squid" NA