GetDescendantNamesFromName: Go from a taxon name to the names of all its descendants

Description Usage Arguments Details Value

Description

Go from a taxon name to the names of all its descendants

Usage

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GetDescendantNamesFromName(taxon.name, igraph.tree, ncbi.names)

Arguments

taxon.name

A character string with the taxon to match

igraph.tree

The igraph tree (maybe from ConvertNCBINodesToTree())

ncbi.names

The data.frame with names (maybe from GetNCBITaxa)

Details

Note this currently gives a list of ALL named descendant taxa. So if you have a family it'll give the genera as well as the species

Value

A vector of taxon names


bomeara/sleq documentation built on May 12, 2019, 11:36 p.m.