TaxonChildren: Gathers A List Of Taxonomic Parents and Offspring

In Reol: R interface to the Encyclopedia of Life

Description

This function goes through the hierarchy pages to collect taxonomic offspring and parantage.

Usage

TaxonChildren(MyHiers)
TaxonParents(MyHier)

Arguments

MyHiers	A vector or single filename for downloaded hierarchy pages
MyHier	A single filename for downloaded hierarchy pages

Value

TaxonChildren will report the primary offspring of a taxon if the hierarchy page reports this information. TaxonParents will return the list of taxonomic parentage.

See Also

MakeTreeData

Examples

#simple example using Reol data:
data(MyHiers)
TaxonChildren(MyHiers)
TaxonParents(MyHiers[1])


#Species of Anolis off NCBI
data(MyHiers)
TaxonChildren(MyHiers)

#Example to get all Anolis species from NCBI
## Not run: 
eolAnolis <- DownloadSearchedTaxa("Anolis", to.file=FALSE)
hierAnolis <- DownloadHierarchy(eolAnolis, to.file=FALSE, database="NCBI
     Taxonomy")
TaxonChildren(hierAnolis)

#Species of Anolis off The Reptile Database
eolAnolis <- DownloadSearchedTaxa("Anolis", to.file=FALSE)
repdbAnolis <- DownloadHierarchy(eolAnolis, to.file=FALSE, database="The Reptile
     Database")
TaxonChildren(repdbAnolis)

## End(Not run)

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