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biogeo (version 1.0)

Point Data Quality Assessment and Coordinate Conversion

Description

Functions for error detection and correction in point data quality datasets that are used in species distribution modelling. Includes functions for parsing and converting coordinates into decimal degrees from various formats.

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install.packages('biogeo')

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1.0

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GPL (>= 3)

Last Published

April 8th, 2016

Functions in biogeo (1.0)

dmsparse

Parse coordinate strings into separate degree, minute and second fields
alternatives

Determine where an incorrect point record should be placed by showing alternative positions for that point based on common errors in datasets.
dms2dd

Converts coordinates in degrees, minutes, seconds into decimal degrees
geo2envid

Interactive plot to explore points in geographical and environmental space
alternativesenv

Determine where an incorrect point record should be placed by showing alternative positions for that point based on common errors in datasets.
addmainfields

Adds required fields to a dataframe containing coordinates for points
pointsworld

Plots point records on a world map using their latitude and longitude
coord2numeric

Converts coordinates that are factors into numeric values
finddecimals

Find coordinates that are in decimal degrees
dd2dmslat

Convert decimal degree coordinates for latitude into degrees, minutes and seconds
keepmainfields

Keep main fields in a dataframe.
modified

Identify records that were modified between two dates
errorcheck

Identifies errors in a dataset of point records
datm

A dataset for a marine species
duplicatesexclude

Exclude duplicate point records per species per grid cell
fieldsmissing

Determines whether any of the required fields are missing from the dataframe
edat

Species collection records dataset and environmental variables data
points2shape

Save data to a points shape file
geo2envpca

Interactive plot to explore points in geographical and environmental space
dmsparsefmt

Parse coordinate string using a format string
dem

Digital elevation model 10 minute spatial resolution
dmsabs

Separates a coordinate string into degrees, minutes and seconds when there are no delimiters
alternatives2

Determine where an incorrect point record should be placed by showing alternative positions for that point based on common errors in datasets.
getformat

Get formats of coordinates
missingvalsexclude

Excludes records with missing values for points
outliers

Detects outliers using values extracted from an environmental variable
modifiedtoday

Identify records that were modified today
env2stack

Read environmental variable rasters
fmtcheck

Coordinate string format check
wclim

Returns Worldclim bioclimatic variable names
quickclean

Automated data cleaning
gbifdat

A dataset of records from GBIF
missingcoords

Finds indices of records in a dataset where the coordinates are missing
parsecoords

Parse coordinates into separate fields
biogeo-package

Point data quality assessment and coordinate conversion
uniqueformats

List unique coordinate formats
dat

Species collection records dataset
richness

Produced a species richness map
substddmm

Swap degrees and minutes in a coordinate
rjack

Outlier detection using the Reverse Jackknife
precisioncheck

Check the precision of the coordinates
speciescount

Count number of records per species
msk60

msk60
getletter

Find letters in coordinates
dd2dmslong

Convert decimal degree coordinates for longitude into degrees, minutes and seconds
plotsetup

Produces devices for plotting
precisionenv

Check precision of records
places

A dataset of localities
sep

Separate coordinates into degrees, minutes and seconds
richnessmap

Map of the number of species or number of records per grid cell
renamefields

Rename particular fields in a dataframe
nearestcell

Assigns points that fall into the sea to the centre of the nearest adjacent coastal grid cell for terrestrial species and to nearest sea cell for marine species
quickrich

Perform error checks and produce richness map
world

World country polygons
checkdatastr

Checks data structure
elevcheck

Elevation check
getextent

Get the extent of an object