Get the ids of taxa from their names

Get the ids of taxa from their names

taxo_id(taxon_names, taxo)

Arguments

taxon_names	vector of character strings with taxonomic names
taxo	a taxonomy data.frame, typically from extract_taxo().

Value

A vector ids, one for each element of taxon_names. Currently, this does not disambiguate between taxa with the same name and just returns the id of the first match in the taxonomy.

See also

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

Examples

taxo
#>   id parent_id    name
#> 1  1        NA  living
#> 2  2         1    fish
#> 3  3         1 mollusc
#> 4  4         2     egg
#> 5  5         3   snail
#> 6  6         3   squid
#> 7  7         5     egg
taxo_id("squid", taxo)
#> [1] 6
taxo_id("foo", taxo)
#> [1] NA
# NB:
taxo_id("egg", taxo)
#> [1] 4