removeCalculated: This function removes previous calculated values

In SWS-Methodology/faoswsProcessing: Standard data manipulation procedure for SWS.

Description

This function removes previous calculated values

Usage

removeCalculated(data, valueVar, observationFlagVar, methodFlagVar,
  missingObservationFlag = "M", missingMethodFlag = "u",
  calculatedMethodFlag = "i")

Arguments

data	The data.table object containing the values.
valueVar	The column name of data which contains the values for the variable to be modified.
observationFlagVar	The column name of the observation flag corresponding to value.
methodFlagVar	The column name of the method flag corresponding to value.
missingObservationFlag	The character value which is used to represent missing values in the observation flag. This value will be put in any column containing imputation data that is removed.
missingMethodFlag	The character value which is used to represent missing values in the method flag. This value will be put in any column containing imputation data that is removed.
calculatedMethodFlag	This character value specifies which method flag correspond to previous calculated values in the data.

Details

The observation flag is not required, as previous calculated values can contain any observation flag due to flag aggregation.

Value

No value is returned. However, the object "data" which was passed to this function is modified.

SWS-Methodology/faoswsProcessing documentation built on June 19, 2019, 5:14 p.m.