seawaveQ (version 1.0.0)

combineData: Combine water-quality sample data and continuous ancillary variables

Description

Function to combine water-quality sample data and continuous (daily) ancillary variables and drop unnecessary columns.

Usage

combineData(qwdat, cqwdat,
    qwcols = c("staid", "dates", "R", "P"))

Arguments

qwdat

is the dataset containing water-quality sample data with columns that begin with a P (or other user-defined indicator) followed by alphanumeric characters. These columns are concentration data. In addition there need to be columns that begin wit

qwcols

is a character vector with column headings for a station (location) identifier, a dates column identifier, beginning of column headers for remarks code (default is R), and beginning of column headers for concentration data (default is P for parame

cqwdat

is the dataset containing variables that can be used as explanatory variables for the seawaveQ model. See example dataset for more information about the data format cqwMoRivOmaha. These are daily values

Value

• a dataframe

format

a dataframe with the number of rows equal to the number of rows in the dataframe indicated by qwdat. The number of columns depend on the two input data frames. Minimally there will be a station identification column, a dates column, a column of qualification codes, and a column of water-quality data.

Examples

data(swData)
MoRivOmaha<-combineData(qwdat=qwMoRivOmaha, cqwdat=cqwMoRivOmaha,
qwcols=c("staid", "dates", "R", "P"))