pbdb_subtaxa: Count number of taxa in an occurrence data frame

In ropensci/paleobioDB: Download and Process Data from the Paleobiology Database

Count number of taxa in an occurrence data frame

Description

Count the number of taxa (species, genera, families, orders, classes, and phyla) in an occurrence data frame.

Usage

pbdb_subtaxa(data, do_plot = TRUE, col = "#0000FF")

Arguments

data	Data frame from a query to PaleobioDB as returned by the pbdb_occurrences() function using the argument show = "class" or show = "classext".
do_plot	Logical indicating whether to produce a plot (TRUE by default).
col	Colour of the histogram.

Value

A data frame with the number of subtaxa in the data.

Examples

## Not run: 
  canidae_quat <- pbdb_occurrences(
    limit = "all", base_name = "Canidae",  interval = "Quaternary",
    show = c("coords", "classext", "ident"), vocab = "pbdb"
  )
  pbdb_subtaxa(canidae_quat)

## End(Not run)

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