add_lineage_description: Add lineage descriptions to an OTU table
In wilkox/wilkoxmisc: Wilkox miscellaneous

View source: R/add_lineage_description.R

Takes a tbl with columns 'OTU', 'Domain', 'Phylum', 'Class' etc. and constructs a human-readable lineage description, the binomial if possible. Returns the tbl, with an additional 'Description' column.

1 2	add_lineage_description(otutable, add_otu = TRUE, italicise_binomials = "none")

`italicise_binomials`	if set to 'markdown' or 'md', will wrap binomials in asterisks so they appear italicised in markdown output. If set to 'latex', will wrap binomials in escaped 'textit' tags.
`OTUTable`	tbl with at least an 'OTU' column and at least one taxonomic rank column
`add_OTU`	add the OTU name in parentheses after the description