basis_clean: Basis Cleaning - Removes records with certain record basis

In gatoRs: Geographic and Taxonomic Occurrence R-Based Scrubbing

Basis Cleaning - Removes records with certain record basis

Description

The basis_clean() function removes records based on basisOfRecord column.

Usage

basis_clean(df, basis.list = NA, basis.of.record = "basisOfRecord")

Arguments

df	Data frame of occurrence records returned from gators_download().
basis.list	A list of basis to keep. If a list is not supplied, the filter will be interactive and users must respond to the function.
basis.of.record	Default = "basisOfRecord". The name of the basis of record column in the data frame.

Details

With the interactive method, the function will print all unique basisOfRecord values in the current data set and then ask the user to respond in the console to prompts regarding which records, if any, should be removed based on their basisOfRecord. This function requires no additional packages.

Value

Returns a data frame with records of desired record basis. Information about the columns in the returned data frame can be found in the documentation for gators_download().

Examples

cleaned_data <- basis_clean(data, basis.list = c("Preserved Specimen","Physical specimen"))

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