get_level: get_level

In ropensci/RNeXML: Semantically Rich I/O for the 'NeXML' Format

get_level

Description

get a data.frame of attribute values of a given node

Usage

get_level(nex, level)

Arguments

nex	a nexml object
level	a character vector indicating the class of node, see details

Details

level should be a character vector giving the path to the specified node group. For instance, otus, characters, and trees are top-level blocks (e.g. child nodes of the root nexml block), and can be specified directly. To get metadata for all "char" elements from all characters blocks, you must specify that char nodes are child nodes to character nodes: e.g. get_level(nex, "characters/char"), or similarly for states: get_level(nex, characters/states).

The return object is a data frame whose columns are the attribute names of the elements specified. The column names match the attribute names except for "id" attribute, for which the column is renamed using the node itself. (Thus <otus id="os2"> would be rendered in a data.frame with column called "otus" instead of "id"). Additional columns are added for each parent element in the path; e.g. get_level(nex, "otus/otu") would include a column named "otus" with the id of each otus block. Even though the method always returns the data frame for all matching nodes in all blocks, these ids let you see which otu values came from which otus block. This is identical to the function call get_taxa(). Similarly, get_level(nex, "otus/otu/meta") would return additional columns 'otus' and also a column, 'otu', with the otu parent ids of each metadata block. (This is identical to a function call to get_metadata). This makes it easier to join data.frames as well, see examples

Value

Returns the attributes of specified class of nodes as a data.frame

ropensci/RNeXML documentation built on Jan. 14, 2023, 4:36 a.m.