RvegToJuice: RvegToJuice: Export an Rveg Database to JUICE compatible...

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RvegToJuice: Export an Rveg Database to JUICE compatible format

Description

Exports an existing Rveg database into a format directly compatible with JUICE, a comprehensive software for vegetation classification. This function processes both the species composition data and the header data, formatting them to meet JUICE's import requirements.

Usage

RvegToJuice(database, export = "export", checklist = "default")

Arguments

database	Character. The path and name of an existing Rveg database to be exported (e.g., "path/to/my_db").
export	name of your exported csv file
checklist	Character. The species checklist to use. By default, the function attempts to read the checklist specified in the database's metadata. You can override this by providing a custom file path or a built-in dictionary string.

Details

To ensure seamless compatibility with JUICE, this function performs several background transformations:

• Layer Mapping: Rveg layers are automatically converted to JUICE's numeric layer representations (e.g., Tree layer "3" becomes "2", Shrub "2" becomes "4", Herb "1" becomes "6", etc.).

• Absence Encoding: Zero values (0) are converted to ..

• Encoding: Files are written using ISO-8859-15 encoding, which is the standard expected by JUICE for proper character rendering.

For JUICE import first import relevé data as Spreadsheet file and follow with Header data as Tab delimineted file.

Value

Writes two text-based CSV files to the location specified by export: one containing the header data (⁠*H.csv⁠) and one containing the relevé species data formatted with JUICE headers (⁠*R.csv⁠).

Examples

# Example: Exporting the built-in example Rveg database to JUICE format
RvegToJuice(
  database = file.path(path.package("Rveg"), "extdata/ExampleDB", "example_1")
)

Rveg documentation built on March 1, 2026, 5:06 p.m.