repeating_digits: Flag repeating digits

In thiloshon/Biodiversity:

Description

Runs quality check of finding repeated digits and flags accordingly.

Usage

repeating_digits(gbif_data)

Arguments

gbif_data

Dataframe from GBIF with two mandatory fields; decimalLatitude and decimalLongitude.

Details

The function runs a quality check on two fields of GBIF data - decimalLatitude and decimalLongitude. Checks if the decimal values have repeated values at the end of the value. Repeated values might mean error in digitisation or conversions of records

Value

Same dataframe with two additional columns; latRepeatCount and longRepeatCount. Both shows the number of digits that are repeating

Author(s)

thiloshon <[e-mail]>

Examples

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

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