filter_predicate: Filter predicate

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Filter predicate

Description

Filter predicate

Usage

pred(arg, value)

pred_not(arg, value)

pred_gt(arg, value)

pred_gte(arg, value)

pred_lt(arg, value)

pred_lte(arg, value)

pred_in(arg, value)

pred_notin(arg, value)

pred_na(arg)

pred_notna(arg)

pred_and(...)

pred_or(...)

Arguments

arg	(character) The key for the predicate. See "Keys" below.
value	(various) The value for the predicate.
...	For pred_or() or pred_and(): one or more objects of class filter_predicate, created by any other ⁠pred*⁠ function.

Value

A predicate object. An object of class predicate is a list with the following elements:

• arg: A (list of) character with all arguments in the predicate(s).

• value: A (list of) character with all values in the predicate(s).

• type: A (list of) character with all predicate types, see section "predicate methods" here below.

• expr: A character: body of a filter expression.

Predicate methods and their equivalent types

⁠pred*⁠ functions are named for the 'type' of operation they do, inspired by GBIF occurrence predicates

The following functions take one key and one value and are associated to the following types:

• pred: equals

• pred_not: notEquals

• pred_lt: lessThan

• pred_lte: lessThanOrEquals

• pred_gt: greaterThan

• pred_gte: greaterThanOrEquals

• pred_like: like (NOT IMPLEMENTED YET!)

The following function is only for geospatial queries, and only accepts a WKT string:

• pred_within: within (NOT IMPLEMENTED YET!)

The following functions are only for stating that you do (not) want a key to be NA, so only accepts one key:

• pred_na: isNA

• pred_notna: isNotNA

The following two functions accept multiple individual filter predicates, separating them by either "and" or "or":

• pred_and: and

• pred_or: or

The following function is special in that it accepts a single key but many values, stating that you want to search for all the listed values, e.g. one of the locations in: "B_ML_val 05_molenkreek", "B_ML_val 03_De Val" and "B_ML_val 06_Oostpolderkreek"

• pred_in: in

• pred_notin: notIn

What happens internally

Internally, the input to ⁠pred*⁠ functions turn into a character string, which forms the body of a filter expression. For example:

pred("tags", "boven de stroom") gives:

$arg
[1] "tags"

$value
[1] "boven de stroom"

$type
[1] "equals"

$expr
(tags == "boven de stroom")

pred_gt("latitude", 51.27) gives, (only expr element shown):

(latitude > 51.27)

pred_or() gives:

((tags == "boven de stroom") | (latitude > 51.28))

pred_or() gives:

((tags == "boven de stroom") & (latitude > 51.28))

Keys

Acceptable arguments to the key parameter are the column names of the data frame you are applying the filter predicates.

See Also

Other filter functions: apply_filter_predicate()

Examples

# One arg one value predicates
pred("scientificName", "Anas platyrhynchos")
pred("tags", "boven de stroom")
pred_gt("latitude", 51.18)
pred_gte("latitude", 51.18)
pred_lt("longitude", 3.95)
pred_lte("longitude", 3.95)
pred_not("locationName", "B_DL_val 3_dikke boom")

# and/or predicates
pred_and(pred_lt("longitude", 3.59), pred_gt("latitude", 51.28))
pred_or(pred_gte("count", 2), pred("vernacular_name", "Norway Rat"))

# Use dates as argument
start_date <- as.Date("2020-06-03", format = "%Y-%m-%d")
end_date <- as.Date("2020-06-10", format = "%Y-%m-%d")
pred_or(pred_gte("start", start_date), pred_lte("end", end_date))

# Use datetimes (POSIXct) as argument
start_date <- lubridate::as_datetime("2020-06-03")
end_date <- lubridate::as_datetime("2020-06-10")
pred_or(pred_gte("start", start_date), pred_lte("end", end_date))

# One arg multiple values predicates
locations <- c("B_ML_val 03_De Val", "B_ML_val 05_molenkreek")
pred_in("location_name", locations)
pred_notin("location_name", locations)
start_dates <- lubridate::as_datetime(c("2020-06-03 20:10:18", "2020-06-03 20:04:33"))
pred_in("start", start_dates)
pred_notin("start", start_dates)

# One arg, no value predicates
pred_na("scientificName")
pred_notna("scientificName")

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