getAllParents: get common parents for a list of taxon IDs

In raim/ncbitax: Simple base R parser for NCBI Taxonomy

Description

Loops over getParents for severals taxon IDs and avoids multiple lineage retrieval operations by passing already found edges to the skip option of the recursive function.

Usage

getAllParents(ids, tax, root = "1", names = FALSE, dbug = FALSE)

Arguments

ids	vector of taxon IDs
tax	NCBI taxonomy object
root	taxon ID of the taxonomic class to be considered as root
names	return taxon names instead of ids
dbug	print debug messages

Examples

getAllParents(c("1148","1140"), tax)

raim/ncbitax documentation built on Aug. 6, 2020, 7:29 a.m.