Get the taxon name the Soil Order, Suborder, Great Group or Subgroup level

getTaxonAtLevel(x, level = c("order", "suborder", "greatgroup", "subgroup"))

Arguments

x	A character vector containing subgroup-level taxonomic names
level	one of `c("order","suborder","greatgroup","subgroup")`

Value

A named character vector of taxa at specified level, where names are the internal Soil Taxonomy letter codes.

Examples


# default gets the soil order 
getTaxonAtLevel(c("typic haplargids", "typic glacistels")) #, level = "order")
#> typic haplargids typic glacistels 
#>      "aridisols"       "gelisols" 

# specify alternate levels
getTaxonAtLevel("humic haploxerands", level = "greatgroup")
#> humic haploxerands 
#>     "haploxerands" 

# can't get subgroup (child) from great group (parent)
getTaxonAtLevel("udifolists", level = "subgroup")
#> udifolists 
#>         NA 

# but can do parents of children
getTaxonAtLevel("udifolists", level = "suborder")
#> udifolists 
#>  "folists"