table_updateColumn: Update a column of metadata in a table

In MazamaLocationUtils: Manage Spatial Metadata for Known Locations

Update a column of metadata in a table

Description

For matching locationID, records the associated locationData is used to replace any existing value in columnName. NA values in locationID will be ignored.

Usage

table_updateColumn(
  locationTbl = NULL,
  columnName = NULL,
  locationID = NULL,
  locationData = NULL,
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

locationTbl	Tibble of known locations.
columnName	Name to use for the new column.
locationID	Vector of locationID strings.
locationData	Vector of data to used at matching records.
verbose	Logical controlling the generation of progress messages.

Value

Updated tibble of known locations.

See Also

table_addColumn

table_removeColumn

Examples

library(MazamaLocationUtils)

locationTbl <- get(data("wa_monitors_500"))
wa <- get(data("wa_airfire_meta"))

# We will merge some metadata from wa into locationTbl

# Record indices for wa
wa_indices <- seq(5,65,5)
wa_sub <- wa[wa_indices,]

locationID <- 
  table_getLocationID(
    locationTbl, 
    wa_sub$longitude, 
    wa_sub$latitude, 
    distanceThreshold = 500
  )
  
locationData <- wa_sub$siteName

locationTbl <- 
  table_updateColumn(locationTbl, "siteName", locationID, locationData)

# Look at the data we attempted to merge
wa$siteName[wa_indices]

# And two columns from the updated locationTbl
locationTbl_indices <- table_getRecordIndex(locationTbl, locationID)
locationTbl[locationTbl_indices, c("city", "siteName")]

MazamaLocationUtils documentation built on March 18, 2022, 7:24 p.m.