Generate a taxons column for a flattened ontology

This column is needed for use with the taxa and metacodeR packages.

generate_taxons(flat_ontology, id_column = "id",
  parent_column = "parent_structure_id", value_column = "id",
  taxon_column = "taxons")

Arguments

flat_ontology	A flat ontology data.frame generated by flatten_mba_ontology
id_column	The id column used to link structures. default is "id".
parent_column	The column specifying the id column of the parent of each structure. default is "parent_structure_id".
value_column	The column of values to use to build the taxons column. Default is "id". Using "acronym" will yield a more readable taxonomy.
taxon_column	The name of the column to use for storing the resulting taxons. Default is "taxons".

Value

a data.frame with an additional column of semicolon-separated taxons based on the value_column.