occData: Input occurrence data

In EduardoArle/speciesRanges: Create or update species range maps based on point-records

Description

Prepares user provided georeferenced biological data for the models

Usage

occData(
  occ_table,
  species = "Species",
  longitude = "Longitude",
  latitude = "Latitude",
  occurrence = "occurrence"
)

Arguments

occ_table	table containing latitude and longitude
species	col.name containing the species information
longitude	col.name containing the longitude information
latitude	col.name containing the latitude information
occurrence	col.name informing whether each entry is a presence or absence. Values must be TRUE or FALSE.

Value

This function standardises the user provided georeferenced biological data to be fed into the models.

Examples

# Create a data.frame containing species names and coordinates

test_data <- data.frame(sps=rep("Equus acephalus",10),
             lon=c(-43.2,-58.4,-56,-44,-54.5,-57.4,-60.1,-68.5,-71.3,-47.5),
             lat=c(-22.9,-34.6,-34.8,-20,-25.5,-25.2,-3,-32.5,-41.1,-15.5),
             gender=rep("female",10),head_size=rep("headless individual"),
             occ=c(TRUE,TRUE,TRUE,FALSE,FALSE,TRUE,TRUE,FALSE,TRUE,TRUE))

sps_occurrence <- occData(test_data,"sps","lon","lat","occ")

EduardoArle/speciesRanges documentation built on Feb. 2, 2022, 5:14 p.m.