construct_database: Construct initial database
In dswdejonge/TripleD: Construct a TripleD database.

Description Usage Arguments Details Value

This function loads CSV files, checks the data format, and constructs an initial table with only raw data.

construct_database(
  in_folder = "inputfiles",
  out_folder = "data",
  as_CSV = TRUE
)

`in_folder`	This folder must contain two subfolders called 'Species' and 'Stations' that contain properly formatted CSV files. These CSV files can be requested from the NIOZ Data Archiving System. Default is "inputfiles".
`out_folder`	The function will create a new directoy to store the newly created data. Default is "data".

Make sure this function is executed in the same working directory that contains the in_folder directory. This function checks the data format of the CSV files contained by the 'Species' and 'Stations' folder contained by the 'in-folder'. If the functions finds any irregularities, an error will be thrown.

This function does not return any objects. It will throw errors if anything is wrong with your initial data. If there are no errors, it will store Rdata in the newly created folder 'out_folder'.

dswdejonge/TripleD documentation built on June 18, 2020, 12:24 p.m.