formatRiparianVegetation: Format Riparian Vegetation data for calculations

In jasonelaw/nrsa: Calculate metrics for NRSA protocol data.

Description

In addition to transposing the data to a wide format, this function creates two sets of parameters: 'p_' and 'r_'. The former are 'presence' parameters and are TRUE whenever for any parameter with a nonzero vegetation cover class. The latter parameters are the cover classes converted to the arithmetic means of end points of the cover classes to numerically characterize each class.

Usage

formatRiparianVegetation(uid, transect, transdir, parameter, result)

Arguments

uid	a vector of site visit indicators
transect	a vector of transect indicators
transdir	a vector of bank indicators
parameter	the measured parameter code. One of: "underveg", "canveg", "canbtre", "canstre", "undwdy", "undnwdy", "gcwdy", "gcnwdy", "bare".
result	the measured result for each parameter. A vegetation class for "underveg" and "canveg" and 0-4 for the others.

Value

a data frame in wide format with the parameters necessary for metric calculation

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