eq_clean_data: eq_clean_data

In Darwinita/EarthquakingLCP: Functions to process and analyze data from NOAA

Description

A read data file function into a cleaned version of a data frame.

Usage

eq_clean_data(filename)

Arguments

filename

Is a character string giving the file name of the input data file.

Details

eq_clean_data reads a filename from the U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on signicant earthquakes around the world, into a clean version of an R data frame. It stops if the file does not exist. The cleaned version of the data frame has: i) the year, month and day converted to the Date class, after dealing with negative years (BCE) ii) EQ_PRIMARY, TOTAL_DEATHS, YEAR, LATITUDE and LONGITUDE columns converted to numeric class. iii) A clean LOCATION_NAME column by calling the eq_location_clean function.

Value

A clean version of an R data frame with the NOAA data contained in filename.

References

https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/form?t=101650&s=1&d=1

Examples

## Not run: 
eq_clean_data("signif.txt")

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## Not run: 
eq_clean_data()

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Darwinita/EarthquakingLCP documentation built on May 12, 2019, 8:40 a.m.