Joining taxonomy to traits table — join

Function to merge metadata from the taxa table of a traits.build database into the core traits table.

Usage

join_taxa(
  database,
  vars = c("family", "genus", "taxon_rank", "establishment_means")
)

database: traits.build database (list object)
vars: Columns from the taxa table to be joined to the traits table, defaulting to c("family", "genus", "taxon_rank", "establishment_means").

traits.build list object, but with additional fields (columns) for the specified variables from the taxa table appended to the traits table.

the join_ functions have been developed to join relational tables for 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2023 release) see https://github.com/traitecoevo/austraits for how to install old versions of the package or download a newer version of the database.

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
#Append taxonomic details
(database %>% join_taxa)$traits
} # }