Get the names of taxa from their ids

Get the names of taxa from their ids

taxo_name(taxon_ids, taxo, unique = FALSE)

Arguments

taxon_ids	internal, numeric ids of the taxa.
taxo	a taxonomy data.frame, typically from extract_taxo().
unique	force names to be unique by adding the parent name when needed.

Value

A vector names, one for each element of taxon_ids.

See also

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

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
taxo_name(5, taxo)
#> [1] "snail"
taxo_name(2:7, taxo)
#> [1] "fish"    "mollusc" "egg"     "snail"   "squid"   "egg"    
taxo_name(2:7, taxo, unique=TRUE)
#> [1] "fish"      "mollusc"   "egg<fish"  "snail"     "squid"     "egg<snail"