UserInputAssessment: Internal function for assessment of user input
In ArdernHB/GeoOrigins: Spatial exploration of trait boundaries and provenance

UserInputAssessment

R Documentation

Internal function for assessment of user input

This function assesses whether user inputs are as expected and it not the function throws an error

UserInputAssessment(
  LatLongs,
  RefDistMat = NULL,
  RefData = NULL,
  DistVec = NULL,
  Method
)

`LatLongs`	a matrix of n rows by 2 columns where n is the number of reference specimens in your dataset and the columns are Latitude and Longitude values in that order. These latitude-longitude coordinates should be of the locations of the reference specimens.
`RefDistMat`	is a square matrix of pairwise distances among all reference specimens.
`RefData`	is a matrix of Reference specimen data where the rows are the individual reference specimens and the columns are the variables in the same order as the TargetData vector.
`Method`	determines what kind of correlation coefficient should be used, either "Spearman" or "Pearson". Spearman's ranked correlation coefficient does not assume a linear relationship between geographic and trait distances, whereas Pearson's coefficient does.