keepmainfields: Keep main fields in a dataframe.

In biogeo: Point Data Quality Assessment and Coordinate Conversion

Description

Select main fields required by biogeo.

Usage

keepmainfields(dat, ID = "", Species = "", x = "", y = "", others = "")

Arguments

dat	A dataframe containing records including an identifier field, a species name field, x- and y-coordinates fields and any other fields.
ID	The unique identifier field
Species	The field containing the species names
x	x-coordinate in decimal degrees
y	y-coordinate in decimal degrees
others	Names of other fields that should be retained in the dataframe

Value

A dataframe containing the selected fields.

Author(s)

Vernon Visser and Mark Robertson

See Also

addmainfields, renamefields, checkdatastr

Examples

names(gbifdat)
dat3 <- keepmainfields(gbifdat, Species='species', x='decimallongitude', y='decimallatitude')

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