check_assertions: Check assertions in occurrences object
In jjvanderwal/ALA4R: Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) data and resources in R

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This provides a data.frame detailing the assertions that are found in a dataset returned from occurrences.

1	check_assertions(x)

`x`	list: an object returned from `occurrences`

A dataframe of assertions column names, descriptions and categories/error codes. If no assertions are in the dataset, NULL is returned.

Atlas of Living Australia support@ala.org.au

http://api.ala.org.au/

http://biocache.ala.org.au/ws/assertions/codes

#download species data with all possible assertions
x=occurrences(taxon="golden bowerbird",download_reason_id=10,qa=ala_fields('assertions')$name)
asserts = check_assertions(x) #data.frame of assertions, their description and column names
asserts[0:86,5] # List out descriptions of all (current) assertions