README.md

In AlbanSagouis/iClean: Cleaning and homogenising species names, coordinates and site names.

iClean

Cleaning heterogeneous coordinates, species names and site codes.

This package relies on regular expressions to modify text strings, whether coordinates, species names or site codes roughly copy-pasted from papers or gathered fron various data sets. - raw latitude and longitude values copy-pasted together. - species names with many common misprints, heterogeneous abbreviations (Sp, sp, sp. ; msp, msp., Morph1...), abbreviated genus names, etc. - site codes generally follow different patterns between studies and an homogenisation may be needed before sharing and publishing a data set.

The coordinate cleaning function is complementary with CoordinateCleaner and biogeo packages. It is especially useful when coordinates are stored in a single column and the delimiter is absent or not consistent.

The species name cleaning function is complementary with taxize functions that check whether species names are correct or deprecated.

AlbanSagouis/iClean documentation built on May 14, 2020, 9:06 p.m.