Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References See Also
Retrieve taxonomic classifiactions from the taxonomy database at the NCBI.
1 2 |
taxon |
a character string giving the name of the clade of interest. |
species.list |
logical: is |
kingdom |
a character string giving the kingdom to which |
trim |
a character string determining if and how to drop uninformative higher ranks. The default, |
parallel |
logical, indicating if |
type |
character |
a data frame containing the taxonomic classification of all species belonging to term
, for which molecular sequence information is found at the NCBI.
Christoph Heibl
Taxonomy Database website: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/taxonomy
Federhen, Scott. 2012. The NCBI taxonomy databse. Nucleic Acids Research 40: DI36-DI43.
dbUpdateTaxonomy
and dbReadTaxonomy
for storing and retrieving taxonomic information in a megaptera project database.
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