tax_auth: Set and get taxon authorities

In taxa: Classes for Storing and Manipulating Taxonomic Data

Set and get taxon authorities

Description

Set and get the taxon authorities in objects that have them, such as taxon objects. Note that this sets all the authority information, such as author name, date, and citations. To set or get just one of part of the authorities, use tax_author, tax_date, or tax_cite instead.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'taxa_classification'
tax_auth(x)

## S3 replacement method for class 'taxa_classification'
tax_auth(x) <- value

tax_auth(x)

tax_auth(x) <- value

## S3 method for class 'taxa_taxon'
tax_auth(x)

## S3 replacement method for class 'taxa_taxon'
tax_auth(x) <- value

## S3 method for class 'taxa_taxonomy'
tax_auth(x)

## S3 replacement method for class 'taxa_taxonomy'
tax_auth(x) <- value

Arguments

x	An object with taxon authorities.
value	The taxon IDs to set. Inputs will be coerced into a taxon_id vector.

Examples

x <- taxon(name = c('Homo sapiens', 'Bacillus', 'Ascomycota', 'Ericaceae'),
           rank = c('species', 'genus', 'phylum', 'family'),
           id = taxon_id(c('9606', '1386', '4890', '4345'), db = 'ncbi'),
           auth = c('Linnaeus, 1758', 'Cohn 1872', NA, 'Juss., 1789'))

tax_auth(x)
tax_auth(x) <- tolower(tax_auth(x))
tax_auth(x)[1] <- 'Billy'

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