Aggregate family, genus, and species columns of `tbl_df`` into taxa data structure

This function facilitates aggregating family, genus, and species columns into the taxa data structure, which is a nested list composed of multiple "taxons". A taxon is a list containing family, genus, and species fields.

aggregate_taxa(table, grouping_col = NULL)

Arguments

table

The table for which the taxa will be aggregated

grouping_col

An optional column to group on when creating taxa. Rows with the same grouping_col value will be stored into the same taxa.

Value

A tibble with family, genus, and species columns added