taxon-class: Class "taxon"
Description
Class for taxonomic input parameters for megapteraProj
.
Objects from the Class
Objects can be created by calls of the form taxon(ingroup, outgroup, kingdom, hybrids = FALSE,
reference.rank = "auto")
.Slots
- ingroup
-
a vector of mode
"character"
, giving species names or names of higher taxa that define the focal group.
- outgroup
-
a vector of mode
"character"
, giving species names or names of higher taxa that define the outgroup.
- kingdom
-
a vector of mode
"character"
, currently one of "Fungi"
, "Metazoa"
, or "Viridiplantae"
. The International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN) and the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) do not exclude the possibility that genera and species of plants/fungi/algae and animals share the same name (e.g., Prunella vulgaris). Therefore it is necessary to include the kingdom into the search term when querying GenBank.
- species.list
- logical indicating if slot
ingroup
is a list of species or a higher rank.
- hybrids
-
logical: if
TRUE
, hybrids (as recognized by the regular expression "^x_|_x_"
) will be excluded from the pipeline.
- reference.rank
-
a vector of mode
"character"
, giving the name of the rank to be used to create subsets of the sequences to derive the reference sequence(s). The default ("auto"
) commits the selection of the reference rank to the pipeline and in most cases you should be fine using this option.
Methods
- show
signature(object = "taxon")
: prints taxonomic parameter setting