getNodeLabels: Get node labels based on online taxonomic database

In DomBennett/MoreTreeTools: Tools for manipulating phylogenetic trees

Description

Return names of each node in tree based on searching tip labels through Global Names Resolver http://resolver.globalnames.org/ in NCBI.

Usage

getNodeLabels(tree, all = FALSE, cache = FALSE, parent = NULL)

Arguments

tree	phylogenetic tree (ape class)
all	count tips as nodes, default False
cache	T/F, create a local cache of downloaded names?
parent	specify parent of all names to prevent false names

Details

For each node, all the children are searched, the taxonomic lineages returned and then searched to find the lowest shared name. All the tip labels are searched against a specified taxonomic database through the GNR and NCBI.

References

No references yet! https://github.com/DomBennett/MoreTreeTools.

Examples

# example.var <- exampleFun (test.data)

DomBennett/MoreTreeTools documentation built on May 6, 2019, 2:51 p.m.