proximate_data: Create a data frame for NIRWise PLUS applications

In proximetricsR: Spectral Preprocessing and Chemometric Calibration of NIR Sensors

Create a data frame for NIRWise PLUS applications

Description

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Create a data frame of class "proximate_data", similar to proximate_read_data, but without the need for a file. Instead, data can be supplied directly from R.

Usage

proximate_data(
  spc, id, properties = NULL, row = seq_len(nrow(spc)), check = "True", date = Sys.time(),
  snr = NULL, barcode = "", note = "", begin = Sys.time(), end = Sys.time(),
  recipe = "", coeffs = NULL
)

Arguments

spc	A matrix containing the spectral data. Note that the names of the columns must indicate the corresponding wavelength range at which the spectra was measured. Hence, the column names must be convertible to numerical values.
id	A vector of length equal to the number of rows of spc. Corresponds to the ID of the spectra, and must be provided.
properties	Either NULL (default) or a matrix containing numerical values, indicating the reference values of each property, where the column names correspond to the names of the properties. If a matrix is provided, it must contain the same number of rows as spc, but can contain NA values.
row	A vector of length equal to the number of rows of spc. Contains the row number of the observation.
check	A vector of characters with length equal to the number of rows of spc or a single character. Must only contain characters "True" or "False". Defaults to "True".
date	A vector of length equal to the number of rows of spc or a single character. Indicates the date when the measurement was taken. Format should be: "year-month-day hour:min:sec". In case an object inheriting from "POSIXct", formatting will be done automatically. Defaults to Sys.time().
snr	A vector of length equal to the number of rows of spc, a single character or NULL. Indicated the serial number of the instrument the measurement was taken with. Defaults to NULL, in which case the serial numbers are all equal to "0000000000".
barcode	A vector of length equal to the number of rows of spc or a single character. Contains the barcodes for the measurement. Defaults to an empty string.
note	A vector of length equal to the number of rows of spc or a single character. Contains notes for the measurements. Defaults to an empty string.
begin	A vector of length equal to the number of rows of spc or a single character. Contains the time and date of the beginning of the measurement process. Format should be: "year-month-day hour:min:sec". In case an object inheriting from "POSIXct", formatting will be done automatically. Defaults to the system's current date and time.
end	A vector of length equal to the number of rows of spc or a single character. Contains the time and date of the ending of the measurement process. Format should be: "year-month-day hour:min:sec". In case an object inheriting from "POSIXct", formatting will be done automatically. Defaults to the system's current date and time.
recipe	A vector of length equal to the number of rows of spc or a single character. Contains the recipe for the measurements. Defaults to an empty string.
coeffs	A list with exactly three entries. Parameter is ignored if the wavelength resolution of spc is constant. For non-constant resolution, this parameter must be supplied. See details on this parameter needs to be defined. Default is NULL.

Details

This function provides an alternative way of creating a data.frame with the necessary structure that is required by many functions of this package. In particular, this function does not require any already existing files like proximate_read_data.

Note that only the first two arguments to this function are required for creating the data frame. However, the properties argument should most often also be provided, as these contain the necessary reference values for the process of modeling and creating an application with the spectral data.

Most parameters of this function can either have length equal to the number of rows of spc or length equal to one. In latter case, the value is recycled for every row of the returned data frame.

Furthermore, we emphasize that the column names of matrix spc must contain the wavelength ranges of the spectra.

In case these spectra do not have a constant resolution, the function will require additional information on how the spectral wavelength range can be recovered. Then, the parameter coeffs will be mandatory and must contain information on the polynomial coefficients that were used to obtain the wavelengths. More information, including an example, can be seen in the vignette about the
vignette(ProxiMate-Structure-of-the-application-files). A concrete example is also given below.

The coeffs must be a named list with exactly 3 entries: X1, X2, X3. In ProxiMate data files (.tsv), they can be seen at columns #X1, #X2, #X3. Note that both X1 and X2 must be vectors of either length 1 or 2, containing the start and end pixels respectively, while X3 is a list of length 1 or 2, containing polynomial coefficients as vectors of arbitrary length. The entries of the coeffs can either be for a near-infrared only (i.e. length 1), or for both the visible and near-infrared range (i.e. length 2).

The coefficients are attached to the returned data.frame as an attribute "coeffs".

Value

A data.frame of class proximate_data containing all the metadata, response variables and spectra. The spectra is returned in a matrix embedded in the data.frame which can be accessed as ...$spc.

Author(s)

Claudio Orellano

Examples

data("proximateCannabis")
dat <- proximateCannabis

# Reconstruct proximateCannabis with properties in a different order
spc <- dat$spc
properties <- matrix(
  c(dat$CBD, dat$CBDA, dat$THC, dat$THCA),
  ncol = 4, dimnames = list(NULL, c("CBD", "CBDA", "THC", "THCA"))
)
datc <- proximate_data(
  spc, dat$ID, properties, dat$ROW,
  date = dat$Date, snr = dat$SNR, barcode = dat$Barcode,
  note = dat$Note, begin = dat$Begin, end = dat$End, recipe = dat$Recipe
)

# They are similar to each other (except the order of properties):
dat_refs <- which(names(dat) %in% c("Reference", colnames(properties)))
datc_refs <- which(names(datc) %in% c("Reference", colnames(properties)))
all.equal(dat[, -dat_refs], datc[, -datc_refs]) # TRUE

# In case of non-constant wavelengths, have to pass the coefficients to the function.
# Coefficients are usually given as #X1, #X2, #X3 in ProxiMate .tsv files,
# e.g. using coefficients example of vignette(Structure-of-the-application-files):
coeffs <- list(
  X1 = c(823, 4),
  X2 = c(1074, 272),
  X3 = list(
    c(0, 0, 0, -3.618926e-05, 2.137782, -1.333363e+03),
    c(2.04E-10, -1.28E-07, 2.80E-05, -4.76e-3, 3.89, 880.06)
  )
)

# You can extract the wavelengths in nm using these coefficients like this:
# Note that NIR pixels must be shifted by one to the right, as they are zero-based
pixel_seq <- list((coeffs$X1[1]:coeffs$X2[1]), (coeffs$X1[2]:coeffs$X2[2]) + 1)
vis_wavs <- mapply(
  pixel_seq[[1]],
  FUN = function(x) coeffs$X3[[1]] %*% c(x^5, x^4, x^3, x^2, x^1, 1)
)
nir_wavs <- mapply(
  pixel_seq[[2]],
  FUN = function(x) coeffs$X3[[2]] %*% c(x^5, x^4, x^3, x^2, x^1, 1)
)
wavs <- c(vis_wavs, nir_wavs)

# Above coefficients now have to be passed to the proximate_data()
# function since there are non-constant wavelengths.

# If we (wrongly) assume that proximateCannabis has such wavelengths:
rand_mat <- matrix(rnorm((length(wavs) - ncol(spc)) * nrow(spc)), nrow = nrow(spc))
spc <- cbind(rand_mat, spc)
colnames(spc) <- wavs

# Now we can create data object with coefficients
datcc <- proximate_data(
  spc, dat$ID, properties, dat$ROW,
  date = dat$Date, snr = dat$SNR, barcode = dat$Barcode,
  note = dat$Note, begin = dat$Begin, end = dat$End, recipe = dat$Recipe,
  coeffs = coeffs
)

# Coefficients can be viewed with
attr(datcc, "coeffs")

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