eq_clean_data: Cleanup Earthquake Data

In kjsykora/earthquake: Earthquake

Description

This functions cleans up data from the NOAA significant earthquake database. The cleanup includes building a single date field and removing BCE dates since POSIXlt dates do not work well with pre 1 CE dates.

Usage

eq_clean_data(raw_data, YEAR = "YEAR", MONTH = "MONTH", DAY = "DAY",
  LONGITUDE = "LONGITUDE", LATITUDE = "LATITUDE",
  MAGNITUDE = "EQ_PRIMARY", DEATH = "DEATHS")

Arguments

raw_data	The earthquake dataframe that needs to be cleaned.
YEAR	The name of the column that holds the year of the earthquake as a numeric/integer.
MONTH	The name of the column that holds the month of the earthquake as a numeric/integer.
DAY	The name of the column that holds the day of the month of earthquake as a numeric/integer.
LONGITUDE	The longitude of the earthquake - numeric.
LATITUDE	The latitude of the earthquake - numeric.
MAGNITUDE	The latitude of the earthquake - numeric or character.
DEATH	The latitude of the earthquake - numeric or character.

Value

A cleaned up dataframe with the new date column.

Examples

data(earthquake_raw)
earthquake_raw %>% earthquake::eq_clean_data()

kjsykora/earthquake documentation built on May 29, 2019, 3:38 a.m.