occurrence2SPDF: Convert occurrence dataframe to a SpatialPointsDataFrame

In SEEG-Oxford/seegSDM: Streamlined Functions for Species Distribution Modelling in the SEEG Research Group

Description

A simple helper function to convert a datframe containing occurrence data into a SpatialPointsDataFrame for use with other seegSDM functions.

Usage

occurrence2SPDF(occurrence, crs=wgs84(TRUE))

Arguments

occurrence	A dataframe containing at least the columns Latitude and Longitude coordinates.
crs	The CRS for the occurrence data (default: projected WGS84).

Value

A SpatialPointsDataFrame containing the dataframe occurrence.

See Also

SpatialPointsDataFrame, checkOccurrence

Examples

# load the occurrence dataframe
data(occurrence)

class(occurrence)
head(occurrence)

#convert to an SPDF
occ <- occurrence2SPDF(occurrence)

class(occ)
head(occ)

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