checkOccurrences: Quality check on occurrences data

In GapAnalysis: Conservation Indicators Using Spatial Information

Quality check on occurrences data

Description

Checks the column names, column data types, valid lat lon, and can optionally remove any duplicated lat lon records per species. The cleaned and formated dataframe is returned as well as a map object show a quick reference of the points in space.

Usage

checkOccurrences(csv, taxon, removeDuplicated = FALSE)

Arguments

csv	A dataframe holding the occurrence data
taxon	A character object that defines the name of the species as listed in the occurrence dataset
removeDuplicated	: Binary parameter. TRUE == duplication values are remove. Set to FALSE as default

Value

A list object containing 1. data : a data frames of values of occurrence data in the required format 2. map : a leaflet object showing the spatial results of the function

References

Khoury et al. (2019) Ecological Indicators 98:420-429. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.11.016")} Carver et al. (2021) GapAnalysis: an R package to calculate conservation indicators using spatial information

Examples

# example code

##Obtaining occurrences from example

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