coordinates_decimal_mismatch: Flag coordinates with decimal points mismatch.

In thiloshon/Biodiversity:

Description

Runs quality check of checking coordinates with more than 3 decimal point difference.

Usage

coordinates_decimal_mismatch(gbif_dataFrame)

Arguments

gbif_data

Dataframe from GBIF with two mandatory fields; decimalLatitude, decimalLongitude

Details

The function runs a quality check on coordinates of GBIF data to check if latitude and longitude have different number of decimal points. If coordinate was recorded by an accepted protocol, its unlikely to identify both coordinate with varying precision.

Value

Same dataframe with one additional column; decimalPointDifference

Author(s)

thiloshon <[e-mail]>

Examples

dat <- rgbif::occ_data(scientificName = 'Ursus americanus')
flagged_dat <- coordinates_decimal_mismatch(dat$data)

thiloshon/Biodiversity documentation built on May 20, 2019, 4:07 p.m.