metacoder (version 0.3.7)

remove_redundant_names: Remove redundant parts of taxon names

Description

Remove the names of parent taxa in the beginning of their children's names in a taxonomy or taxmap object. This is useful for removing genus names in species binomials.

obj$remove_redundant_names()
remove_redundant_names(obj)

Value

A taxonomy or taxmap object

Arguments

obj

A taxonomy or taxmap object

Examples

# Remove genus named from species taxa
species_data <- c("Carnivora;Felidae;Panthera;Panthera leo",
                  "Carnivora;Felidae;Panthera;Panthera tigris",
                  "Carnivora;Ursidae;Ursus;Ursus americanus")
obj <-  parse_tax_data(species_data, class_sep = ";")
remove_redundant_names(obj)