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dbReadTaxonomy: Taxonomy of Species Contained in SQL Database

Description

Queries the SQL database and return a data frame containing the taxonomy of all species currently contained in the database.

Usage

dbReadTaxonomy(conn, subset)

Arguments

conn
a connection object as produced by dbConnect.
subset
a subset of species names the taxonomy should be limited to. Can be a DNA alignment of class DNAbin, a data frame or a simple vector ennumerating the species names.

Value

an object of class "data.frame" containing the taxonomic classification of a set of target species.

See Also

dbReadDNA, dbWriteDNA