README.md

In bd-R/bdDwC: Darwin Core (DwC) Field Name Standardizer in R

bdDwC

Darwinazing biodiversity data in R.

"Darwin Core is a standard maintained by the Darwin Core maintenance group. It includes a glossary of terms intended to facilitate the sharing of information about biological diversity by providing identifiers, labels, and definitions." Darwin Core

bdDwC is an R package that user can Darwinize given dataset using comand-line interface. This package is part of bd-R and has a shiny interface implemented in bddwc.app.

Install bdDwC with:

install.packages("bdDwC")

Or for development version:

devtools::install_github("bd-R/bdDwC")

To use bdDwC from the command line:

Load bdDwC package

library(bdDwC)

bdDwC contains Indian Reptile dataset bdDwC:::data_reptiles. Darwinize data with darwinize_names (replace bdDwC:::data_reptiles with wanted dataset):

result <- darwinize_names(data_user = bdDwC:::data_reptiles,
                          data_dwc  = bdDwC:::data_darwin_cloud$data)

Rename your data using bdDwC with rename_user_data:

# Replace `bdDwC:::data_reptiles` with wanted dataset
rename_user_data(bdDwC:::data_reptiles, result)

To get newest version of Darwin Cloud Data run:

download_cloud_data()

which will download data from the remote repository and extract field and standard names.

bd-R/bdDwC documentation built on Oct. 4, 2021, 11:06 a.m.