Load the canonical KST 13ed code -> taxon-name lookup table

Returns the 3,153-row data.frame from 2022_KST_codes.json in NCSS-tech/SoilKnowledgeBase (GPL-3), which soilKey downloads on first use and caches (it ships no copy; see clear_kst13_cache). Each row is a (code, name) pair.

Usage

kst13_codes()

Value

A data.frame with columns code, name.

Details

Code structure:

• Single letter ("A"-"L"): Soil Order (Gelisols, Histosols, ..., Entisols)

• Two letters ("AB", "AC", ...): Suborder

• Three letters: Great Group

• Four letters: Subgroup

See also

kst13_criteria, kst13_canonical.