rankagg: Aggregate data by given taxonomic rank

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Aggregate data by given taxonomic rank

Description

Aggregate data by given taxonomic rank

Usage

rankagg(data = NULL, datacol = NULL, rank = NULL, fxn = "sum")

Arguments

data	A data.frame. Column headers must have capitalized ranks (e.g., Genus, Tribe, etc.) (data.frame)
datacol	The data column (character)
rank	Taxonomic rank to aggregate by (character)
fxn	Arithmetic function or vector or functions (character)

Examples

if (require(vegan)) {
data(dune.taxon, dune, package='vegan')
dat <- dune.taxon
dat$abundance <- colSums(dune)
rankagg(data=dat, datacol="abundance", rank="Genus")
rankagg(data=dat, "abundance", rank="Family")
rankagg(data=dat, "abundance", rank="Genus", fxn="mean")
rankagg(data=dat, "abundance", rank="Subclass")
rankagg(data=dat, "abundance", rank="Subclass", fxn="sd")
}

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