taxdumpAddNode: Utilities for NCBI Taxdump
In heibl/megaptera: MEGAPhylogeny Techniques in R

Description Usage Arguments Details Value See Also

Insert a taxon as new node to the NCBI taxonomy.

1	taxdumpAddNode(x, tab, rank = "species", taxon, parent)

`x`	An object of class `megapteraProj` or a data frame in parent-child format.
`tab`	A data frame in parent-child format.
`rank`	A character string giving the rank of the new taxon, default is `"species"`.
`taxon`	A character string giving the name of the new taxon.
`parent`	A character string giving the name of the parent taxon.

taxdumpAddNode can be used in two ways: (1) If x is an object of class "megapteraProj", the changes are made in the underlying postgreSQL database and TRUE or FALSE is returned indicating success or failure. (2) If x is a data frame in parent-child format, the changes are made to this table, which is then returned; in case of failure a warning is issued and the unchanged table is returned.

See Details section.

ncbiTaxonomy for downloading the NCBI taxonomy and dbReadTaxonomy for reading the project taxonomy; other taxdump-related tools: taxdumpChildren, taxdumpDropTip, taxdumpHigherRank, taxdumpMRCA, taxdumpSubset, taxdump2phylo and taxdump_isTerminal.