SoilTaxonomy (version 0.2.3)

getTaxonAtLevel: Get the taxon name at the Soil Order, Suborder, Great Group or Subgroup level

Description

Get the taxon name at the Soil Order, Suborder, Great Group or Subgroup level

Usage

getTaxonAtLevel(x, level = "order", simplify = TRUE)

Value

A named character vector of taxa at specified level, where names are the internal Soil Taxonomy letter codes. When length(level) > 1? a data.frame is returned with column names for each level.

Arguments

x

A character vector containing subgroup-level taxonomic names

level

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

simplify

Return a vector when level has length 1? Default: TRUE. Otherwise, a data.frame is returned.

Examples

# 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")

# specify multiple levels (returns a list element for each level)
getTaxonAtLevel("hapludolls", c("order", "suborder", "greatgroup", "subgroup"))