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taxonomic classes for R
https://docs.ropensci.org/taxa
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Add `branches` function #56

Closed zachary-foster closed 6 years ago

zachary-foster commented 7 years ago

In the group of functions roots, stems, and leaves I think there is a place for everything else, which I was thinking about calling branches.

There is already an is_branch function, so I figure there could be a branches function to make things consistent. It would return info on everything that is not a root, stem, or leaf. The four together would be the whole tree.

sckott commented 7 years ago

sounds good, can you give an example of what a branch would be?

zachary-foster commented 7 years ago

A branch is anything that is not a root, stem, or, leaf. Its the interior of the tree after the first split starting from the roots. I am not sure if its really all that useful, but I like completing the metaphor and it should be easy to implement, since I could program it as any taxa not returned by roots(), stems(), or leaves().

sckott commented 7 years ago

right, does make sense to complete the set