classify: Ecological status class for EBQI

In filippo-ferrario/EzBQI: Ecosystem-Based Quality Index tool box

Description

function to classify the EBQI into ecological status.

Usage

classify(
  x,
  labs = c("bad", "poor", "moderate", "good", "high"),
  brks = c(0, 3.5, 4.5, 6, 7.5, 11),
  use_lab = TRUE
)

Arguments

x	vector storing the EBQI values to be converted in ecological status class. Can be of lenght of 1 or longer.
labs	character vector with labels for ecological status classes. Default to c('bad','poor','moderate','good','high')
brks	numeric vevtor with breaks to bin EBQI numerical values. Default to c(0,3.5,4.5,6,7.5,11)
use_lab	logical. set "use_lab" equal TRUE to use labels as in 'labs'. use_lab=FALSE it returns a numeric value (1= bad to 5 =high)

Author(s)

Filippo Ferrario, [e-mail]

References

Personnic, S., Boudouresque, C.F., Astruch, P., Ballesteros, E., Blouet, S., Bellan-Santini, D., Bonhomme, P., Thibault-Botha, D., Feunteun, E., Harmelin-Vivien, M., Pergent, G., Pergent-Martini, C., Pastor, J., Poggiale, J.-C., Renaud, F., Thibaut, T., Ruitton, S., 2014. An Ecosystem-Based Approach to Assess the Status of a Mediterranean Ecosystem, the Posidonia oceanica Seagrass Meadow. PLoS One 9, e98994. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0098994

See Also

EBQI

Examples

EIs<-c(1,0,9.5,3.5,7,5)

classify(EIs,use_lab=TRUE)
classify(EIs,use_lab=FALSE)

filippo-ferrario/EzBQI documentation built on Dec. 20, 2021, 8:41 a.m.