taxa: Access proxy taxonomic data

In neotoma: Access to the Neotoma Paleoecological Database Through R

Description

Extracts taxa from download objects and returns them in a useful format.

Usage

taxa(obj, ...)

## S3 method for class 'download'
taxa(obj, ...)

## S3 method for class 'download_list'
taxa(obj, collapse = TRUE, hierarchy = FALSE,
  ...)

Arguments

obj	an R object from which counts are to be extracted.
...	arguments passed to other methods.
collapse	should the results be returned as a list, one for each site (FALSE), or a single dataframe of all taxa? Default is TRUE
hierarchy	Should the taxonomic hierarchy be included?

Details

Methods are available for "download" and "download_list" objects.

Value

Either a data frame of taxa or a list of such objects.

Author(s)

Simon Goring

Examples

## Not run: 
ostracodes <- get_dataset(datasettype = 'ostracode')

ostro.dl <- get_download(ostracodes)
ostro.taxa <- taxa(ostro.dl)

## End(Not run)

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