occFilter: Filter occurrence records from occTest outputs

In occTest: Characterizing and Filtering Species Occurrence Data

Filter occurrence records from occTest outputs

Description

Select occurrence records based on aggregated values of different tests

Usage

occFilter(
  df,
  by = "testBlock",
  errorAcceptance = "relaxed",
  errorThreshold = NULL,
  custom = NULL
)

Arguments

df	data.frame. Output of occTest
by	character. Applying thresholds to either blocks of test ('testBlock') or single test types ('testType')
errorAcceptance	character. Philosophy for filtering based on threshold. Option are majority, relaxed, strict. Default are 'relaxed'
errorThreshold	double. Value from 0 to 1, specifying the threshold of wrong tests (potentally erroneous records) to filter. It overrides the parameters in thresholds. We recommend building that table based on the functio buildCustomThresholds.
custom	data.frame or equivalent, custom rules created adding a "errorThreshold" (ranging from 0, strict, to 1, relaxed) column to to the result of readRDS(system.file('ext/fieldMetadata.rds',package='occTest'))

Details

If errorAcceptance is used, a 'relaxed' philosophy corresponds to 0.7 (70

Value

list of 2 data.frames

Author(s)

Josep M Serra-Diaz ([e-mail]), Jeremy Borderieux ([e-mail])

See Also

showTests

Examples

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#load output from occTest
occTest_output <- readRDS (system.file('ext/out.rds',package = 'occTest'))
filtered_dataset <- occFilter (occTest_output)
#inspect results
names (filtered_dataset)

occTest documentation built on Nov. 18, 2022, 5:07 p.m.