Extract the lineage information (higher taxonomy) from an object
returned by taxonomy_taxon_info
.
tax_lineage(tax, ...)# S3 method for taxon_info
tax_lineage(tax, ...)
A list with one slot per taxon that contains a data frame with 3 columns: the taxonomy rank, the name, and unique name for all taxa included in the lineage of the taxon up to the root of the tree.
an object created by taxonomy_taxon_info
using the argument include_lineage=TRUE
.
additional arguments (currently unused).
The object passed to this function must have been created using
the argument include_lineage=TRUE
.