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Extract all data for specific taxa

Source: R/extract_taxa.R
extract_taxa.Rd

Function to subset of all data associated with a particular taxon from a traits.build relational database.

Usage

extract_taxa(database, family = NULL, genus = NULL, taxon_name = NULL)

Arguments

database

traits.build database (list object)

family

character string of family or families

genus

character string of genus or genera

taxon_name

character string of taxon name(s)

Value

List of tibbles containing all traits.build data and metadata for the specified taxa.

Details

extract_taxa has been developed to extract data for specific taxa from databases built using the traits.build workflow. Learn more at: https://github.com/traitecoevo/traits.build & https://github.com/traitecoevo/traits.build-book

Note to AusTraits users:

  • This function works with AusTraits version >= 5.0.0 (from Nov 2023 release)

  • For AusTraits versions <= 4.2.0 (up to Sept 2023 release) see https://github.com/traitecoevo/database for how to install old versions of the package or download a newer version of the database.

Author

Fonti Kar - f.kar@unsw.edu.au

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
extract_taxa(database = austraits, family = "Proteaceae")
extract_taxa(database = austraits, genus = "Acacia")
} # }