megaptera (version 1.0-0)

dbUpdateTaxonomy: Taxonomy Table

Description

Creates or extends the taxonomy table of a pgSQL database.

Usage

dbUpdateTaxonomy(conn, taxonomy)

Arguments

conn

a connection object as produced by dbConnect

taxonomy

a data frame containing a taxonomic classification of the study species.

Value

dbUpdateTaxonomy is called for its side effect creating and extending the taxonomy database table.

See Also

ncbiTaxonomy for retrieval of taxonomies from the taxonomy database at NCBI.