getLastChildTaxon: Get last child taxon in Keys at specified taxonomic level

In SoilTaxonomy: A System of Soil Classification for Making and Interpreting Soil Surveys

Get last child taxon in Keys at specified taxonomic level

Description

Get last child taxon in Keys at specified taxonomic level

Usage

getLastChildTaxon(level = c("order", "suborder", "greatgroup"))

Arguments

level

Get child taxa from keys at specified level. One of: "order", "suborder", "greatgroup"

Value

A data.frame containing key (parent key), taxon (last taxon name), code (letter code), position (relative taxon position)

Examples

# get last taxa in suborder-level keys
x <- getLastChildTaxon(level = "suborder")

# proportion of keys where last taxon has "Hap" formative element
prop.table(table(grepl("^Hap", x$taxon)))

SoilTaxonomy documentation built on Nov. 17, 2023, 1:07 a.m.