Get last child taxon in Keys at specified taxonomic level

getLastChildTaxon(level = c("order", "suborder", "greatgroup"))

Arguments

level	Get child taxa from keys at specified level. One of: `"order"`, `"suborder"`, `"greatgroup"`

Value

A data.frame containing key (parent key), taxon (last taxon name), code (letter code), position (relative taxon position)

Examples


# get last taxa in suborder-level keys
x <- getLastChildTaxon(level = "suborder")

# proportion of keys where last taxon has "Hap" formative element
prop.table(table(grepl("^Hap", x$taxon)))
#> 
#> FALSE  TRUE 
#>  0.25  0.75