samples-class: Class for biological samples of an entity

In dinilu/EPDr: Interact with the European Pollen Database (EPD)

Description

Class samples stores all information about biological samples relative to a specified entity of the European Pollen Database (EPD). This object is created by get_samples.

Slots

psamples

data.frame. Information describing the samples: their depth (cm), thickness (cm), analyst, date of analysis, and notes.

analysts

data.frame. Information on the worker that analyzed the data.

pagedpt

data.frame. Estimated ages for each sample according to each available chronology in the database.

pcounts

data.frame. Raw counts for each sample and each observed variable (taxon).

pvars

data.frame. Data on the identification of each variable (taxon) in @pcounts.

syntype

data.frame. Synonym type for those variables that are marked as synonyms.

pvtrans

data.frame. Alternative names for each variable. Not used in the EPD.

pgroup

data.frame. Linking table to identify each taxon (or variable) in a specific group.

groups

data.frame. Details and longer description of the groups identified in @pgroup.

dinilu/EPDr documentation built on Aug. 22, 2019, 1:03 p.m.