getChecklist: getChecklist

getChecklistR Documentation

getChecklist

Description

Returns a checklist of birds found based on the Birds slot of an NCRNbirds object. The returned data can be filtered to meet various criteria.

Usage

getChecklist(
  object,
  years = NA,
  points = NA,
  out.style = "AOU",
  output = "dataframe",
  ...
)

Arguments

object

An NCRNbirds object or a list of such objects.

years

A numeric vector. Returns data only from points where the years the point was visited matches one of the values in years The year a visit takes place is determined by the Year column in the visits slot which is derived from the information in the EventDate column.

points

A character vector. The names of one or more points where the data was collected.

out.style

A length 1 character vector. Either "AOU", "Latin", "common". Indicates the type of names to be returned. Defaults to "AOU"

output

Either "dataframe" (the default) or "list". Note that this must be in quotes. Determines the type of output from the function.

...

Other options passed onto getBirds. Any valid option for getBirds, such as bands, min.count etc. can be added to further specify which data should be considered in making the checklist.

Details

This function returns AOU codes frome either a single NCRNbirds object or a list of such objects. The default output is adata.frame. However, if object is a list and output is "list" then a list of data.frames will be returned. The name of each element in this list will correspond to the ParkCode in each NCRNbirds object.


NCRN/NCRNbirds documentation built on Aug. 28, 2023, 12:12 p.m.