Access proxy taxonomic data

Extracts taxa from download objects and returns them in a useful format.

Usage

taxa(obj, ...)

# S3 method for download
taxa(obj, ...)

# S3 method for download_list
taxa(obj, collapse = TRUE, hierarchy = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

obj

an R object from which counts are to be extracted.

...

arguments passed to other methods.

collapse

should the results be returned as a list, one for each site (FALSE), or a single dataframe of all taxa? Default is TRUE

hierarchy

Should the taxonomic hierarchy be included?

Value

Either a data frame of taxa or a list of such objects.

Details

Methods are available for "download" and "download_list" objects.

Author

Simon Goring

Examples

if (FALSE) {
ostracodes <- get_dataset(datasettype = 'ostracode')

ostro.dl <- get_download(ostracodes)
ostro.taxa <- taxa(ostro.dl)
}