stCheckObs: Check an 'obs' data.frame.

In SpatioTemporal: Spatio-Temporal Model Estimation

Description

Checks that a observation data.frame is valid.

Usage

stCheckObs(obs)

Arguments

obs	data.frame to be checked.

Details

A valid observation data.frame needs to fullfill:

• Contains fields obs, date, and ID

• All elements in obs$obs are finte

• obs$date is one of Date, numeric, or integer

• obs$ID is character

• No duplicated observations (same ID and date)

Value

Nothing

Author(s)

Johan Lindstrom

See Also

Other object checking utilities: stCheckClass, stCheckCovars, stCheckFields, stCheckSTcovars

Examples

  ##load data
  data(mesa.model)

  ##check observations 
  stCheckObs( mesa.model$obs )
  ##some possible failures
  mesa.model$obs <- rbind(mesa.model$obs, mesa.model$obs[1,])
  try( stCheckObs( mesa.model$obs ) )
  mesa.model$obs$obs[1] <- NaN
  try( stCheckObs( mesa.model$obs ) )
  mesa.model$obs$date <- as.character( mesa.model$obs$date )
  try( stCheckObs( mesa.model$obs ) )
  mesa.model$obs$date <- NULL
  try( stCheckObs( mesa.model$obs ) )

SpatioTemporal documentation built on May 2, 2019, 8:49 a.m.