SoilTaxonomy (version 0.1)

getTaxonAtLevel: Get the Taxon Name at the Soil Taxonomic Order, Suborder, Great Group or Subgroup Level

Description

Get the Taxon Name at the Soil Taxonomic Order, Suborder, Great Group or Subgroup Level

Usage

getTaxonAtLevel(x, level = c("order", "suborder", "greatgroup", "subgroup"))

Arguments

x

A character vector containing subgroup-level taxonomic names

level

one of c("order","suborder","greatgroup","subgroup")

Value

A named character vector of taxa at specified level, where names are the internal Soil Taxonomy letter codes.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# default gets the soil order 
getTaxonAtLevel(c("typic haplargids", "typic glacistels")) #, level = "order")

# specify alternate levels
getTaxonAtLevel("humic haploxerands", level = "greatgroup")

# can't get subgroup (child) from great group (parent)
getTaxonAtLevel("udifolists", level = "subgroup")

# but can do parents of children
getTaxonAtLevel("udifolists", level = "suborder")

# }