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cc_equ

Identify Records with Identical lat/lon

Description

Removes or flags records with equal latitude and longitude coordinates, either exact or absolute. Equal coordinates can often indicate data entry errors.

Usage

cc_equ(
  x,
  lon = "decimallongitude",
  lat = "decimallatitude",
  test = "absolute",
  value = "clean",
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

`x`	data.frame. Containing geographical coordinates and species names.
`lon`	character string. The column with the longitude coordinates. Default = “decimallongitude”.
`lat`	character string. The column with the latitude coordinates. Default = “decimallatitude”.
`test`	character string. Defines if coordinates are compared exactly (“identical”) or on the absolute scale (i.e. -1 = 1, “absolute”). Default is to “absolute”.
`value`	character string. Defining the output value. See value.
`verbose`	logical. If TRUE reports the name of the test and the number of records flagged.

Value

Depending on the ‘value’ argument, either a data.frame containing the records considered correct by the test (“clean”) or a logical vector (“flagged”), with TRUE = test passed and FALSE = test failed/potentially problematic . Default = “clean”.

Examples

x <- data.frame(species = letters[1:10], 
                decimallongitude = runif(100, -180, 180), 
                decimallatitude = runif(100, -90,90))

cc_equ(x)
cc_equ(x, value = "flagged")

CoordinateCleaner

Automated Cleaning of Occurrence Records from Biological Collections

v2.0-18

GPL-3

Authors

Alexander Zizka [aut, cre], Daniele Silvestro [ctb], Tobias Andermann [ctb], Josue Azevedo [ctb], Camila Duarte Ritter [ctb], Daniel Edler [ctb], Harith Farooq [ctb], Andrei Herdean [ctb], Maria Ariza [ctb], Ruud Scharn [ctb], Sten Svanteson [ctb], Niklas Wengstrom [ctb], Vera Zizka [ctb], Alexandre Antonelli [ctb], Irene Steves [rev] (Irene reviewed the package for ropensci, see <https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/210>), Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez [rev] (Francisco reviewed the package for ropensci, see <https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/210>)

Initial release