bRacatus (version 2.0.0)

giveOcc: Input occurrence data

Description

Prepares user provided georeferenced biological data for the models

Usage

giveOcc(
  occ_data,
  species = "species",
  longitude = "longitude",
  latitude = "latitude"
)

Value

This function standardises the user provided georeferenced biological data to be fed into the models.

Arguments

occ_data

table containing latitude and longitude

species

col.name containing the species information

longitude

col.name containing the longitude information

latitude

col.name containing the latitude information

Examples

# Create a data.frame containing species names and coordinates

test_data <- data.frame(sps=rep("Equus acephalus",10),
             lon=c(-43.2,-58.4,-56,-44,-54.5,-57.4,-60.1,-68.5,-71.3,-47.5),
             lat=c(-22.9,-34.6,-34.8,-20,-25.5,-25.2,-3,-32.5,-41.1,-15.5),
             gender=rep("female",10),head_size=rep("headless individual"))

sps_occurrence <- giveOcc(test_data,"sps","lon","lat")