getAncestor: get lowest common ancestor

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

Description

retrieves the lowest common ancestor

Usage

getAncestor(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

getAncestor(ids=c("1148","1140"), tax)

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