fieldsmissing: Determines whether any of the required fields are missing...

In biogeo: Point Data Quality Assessment and Coordinate Conversion

Description

Several functions require a particular set of columns with specific names. The required fields are: ID, x, y, Species, x_original, y_original, Correction, Modified, Reason and Exclude. Required fields that are missing can be added using addmainfields.

Usage

fieldsmissing(dat, fields)

Arguments

dat	a dataframe containing several columns, including the x- and y-coordinates
fields	a character vector of the field names that are required

Value

An error is returned if any of the fields are missing

Note

this function is used in pointsworld and several other functions

Author(s)

Mark Robertson and Vernon Visser

See Also

checkdatastr, addmainfields

Examples

data(dat)
fieldsmissing(dat,fields=c("ID","x","y"))

biogeo documentation built on May 1, 2019, 8:05 p.m.